Multi-Flash: Cup Exploding
Artist
Ralph Bartholomew (American, 1907–1985)American, 1907–1985
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Multi-Flash: Cup Exploding
Date1940s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 7/16 × 13 1/2 in. (26.5 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.377
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
In 1932 Harold Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, developed a high-speed stroboscopic flash unit that, for 1/75,000 of a second, was so bright it allowed a camera to record on film the details of an event too rapid for the human eye to discern. “The experience of seeing the unseen has provided me with insights and questions my entire life,” he wrote.
Provenance[Photofind Gallery, New YorkAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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