Stonehenge from airplane

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Stonehenge from airplane

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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
1944
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
826cc3ae-2874-400f-ace7-6c4f4cd2b3ab

An aerial view of the Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain in England, captured by a 50,000 watt-second flash. This print is a nighttime aerial reconnaissance photograph created by Edgerton.

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