Artist
Harold E. Edgerton (American, 1903–1990)American, 1903–1990
Artistwith
Kim Vandiver (American, born 1945)American, born 1945
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Bullet through Candle Flame
Date1973, printed 1985
PlaceUnited States
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 18 7/16 × 12 1/8 in. (46.8 × 30.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 16 1/16 in. (50.8 × 40.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 16 1/16 in. (50.8 × 40.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation
Object number96.934.10
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
A 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 crown-like splash of a drop of milk, an arrow in midflight, or here, the path of a single bullet through the flame of a candle.
ProvenanceHarold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, Boston; given to MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right in pencil "8501.2122/7302"
verso lower right in pencil "Harold Edgerton"
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