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Nevada Proving Ground, Fall 1951
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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- 1951
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ecc49c62-f90d-47d7-8d7b-1f0645614af1
An atomic bomb explosion at the Nevada Proving Grounds now known as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
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