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Harold Edgerton American
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Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/1,000,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time. Here he recorded the powerful "splash" as a bullet collides with a steel block.
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Title: Bullet Splash
Artist:
Harold Edgerton (American, 1903–1990)
Date: 1940s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 22.7 cm x 17.8 cm. (8 15/16 in. x 7 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1996
Object Number: 1996.40.3
Rights and Reproduction: © MIT, Harold Edgerton, 2014, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
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