A Bomb Explosion

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A Bomb Explosion

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Harold Edgerton

American Photographer · 1903–1990

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> Don't make me out an artist. I'm an engineer. I'm after the facts. Only the facts. Harold "Doc" Edgerton learned photography from an uncle in Aurora, Nebraska, during his high school years. Setting up a darkroom in his parents' kitchen, Edgerton went to work during the summer for the Nebraska Power and Light Company. In 1925 he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and went to w

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Date
about 1952
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
3e4f30ff-4131-41b8-ac32-234f425e35d4

A view of an atomic bomb detonating at the Nevada Proving Grounds, now known as the Nevada Nevada Test Site (NTS) and National Security Site (NNSS), for the Atomic Energy Commission.

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