Artist Index: Edgerton, Harold

"Cranberry Juice Drop into Milk".
Dye Transfer Abzug. 40,3 x 35,5 cm (50 x 40,5 cm). Verso mit Bleistift vom Fotografen signiert. 1960/Abzug 1980er Jahre.

"Milk Drop Coronet". 1957. Vintage chromogenic print on Kodak paper. 25 x 20,3 cm. EG & G. Inc. (Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier Inc.) and No. 138265 stamps as well as A Kodak Paper watermark on the verso.
Keith Davis. An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection, ill. plate 236 (Milk Drop Coronet, variant). – A scientist and professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T., Harold Edgerton became interested in photography in 1931. He employed a stroboscope to generate extremely brief bursts of light in his photographic studies. These stop-action pictures made it possible to observe movements that were too fast for the human eye to see. In his milk drop images, Edgerton learned that the shape of the coronet was determined by three factors: the size of the drop, the height from which it fell, and the thickness of the film of milk on the surface from a previous drop. These studies are among Edgerton's most iconic images. The present photograph, printed by Edgerton at M.I.T., is a rare early chromogenic print with a glossy surface and saturated colors. – Buckled, small indentation mark in upper right near edge, small light crease near left edge, a few small nicks in edges, otherwise an early dye transfer print with rich, saturated colors and in good condition.

"Light Bulb (IV), 30 Caliber Bullet, Exit". 1936/printed 1980s. Gelatin silver print. 22 x 30 cm (27,8 x 35 cm). Signed and titled by the photographer in pencil on the verso.

Traces of previous mounting on the verso, otherwise in excellent condition.

"Bobby Jones Multiflash Golf Swing". 1938. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 x 20 cm. Wide World Photos agency stamp, annotated in pencil and typed German press text label affixed to the verso.

An image from this same series is in the collection of SFMOMA.