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Cutting the Card Quickly

Cutting the Card Quickly

© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Cutting the Card Quickly
Cutting the Card Quickly
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1990
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cutting the Card Quickly
Date1964, printed 1985
PlaceUnited States
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/4 × 18 1/8 in. (36.2 × 46 cm)
 Sheet: 16 1/8 × 20 in. (41 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation
Object number96.934.8
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionHarold Edgerton also developed a style of stop-motion photography to make time stand still with his stroboscopic high-speed photographs. A .30 caliber bullet, traveling 2,800 feet per second, requires an exposure of less than 1/1,000,000 of a second. To make this photograph, Edgerton synchronized his electronic stroboscope with a special high-speed motion-picture camera so that with each flash one frame of film was exposed. The rotation of the projectile bullet (caused by the rifling of the gun barrel) sliced a sliver of card between the two halves, which hover impossibly frozen in time.
ProvenanceHarold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, Boston; given to MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right corner in pencil "8501.2122/6404"
verso center in pencil "Harold Edgerton"

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Harold E. Edgerton