Harold E. Edgerton
Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk

© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Spilt Milk
Spilt Milk
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1990
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Spilt Milk
Date1933, printed later
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 7/8 × 12 1/16 in. (22.5 × 30.6 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation
Object number96.877
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionA professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold “Doc” Edgerton transformed the field of high-speed photography by linking laboratory strobe lights with camera shutter motors. Edgerton’s photographs made it possible to observe movements too fast for the human eye—a bullet piercing a balloon, the crownlike splash of a drop of milk, an arrow in mid-flight, or, here, the shattering of a fallen glass of milk.
ProvenanceHarold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, Boston; given to MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso: "Harold Edgerton 3307.1009".

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