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Atomic Bomb Explosion, (µs exposure @ about 1µs)
Creator
Harold EdgertonAmerican Photographer · 1903–1990
All works by this person →> 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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- 1952
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 9c8a8267-d0cf-4cd6-a62b-c4f1a0e134ad
A shed observed during the moment of an atomic bomb explosion at Enewetak Atoll, the place of nuclear testing during the Cold War. The ultra high-speed photograph was captured with a rapatronic shutter.
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