Bullet Splash
Harold Edgerton
1940s · Gelatin silver print · Photographs
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.
- Artist
- Harold Edgerton
- Date
- 1940s
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1996
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