Bullet Though Plexiglass

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Bullet Though Plexiglass

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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
1962
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
baf528a2-642e-435e-84db-5e9c42e91ac6

A .30 calibur bullet colliding with and passing through a sheet of plexiglass. Fragments of the plexiglass follow the silhouette of the bullet. This photograph is a shadowgram, created without a camera or lens where the silhouetted exposure lasted less than one microsecond.

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