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Harold Edgerton
.30 Bullet Piercing an Apple1964, printed 1985

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Color photograph of a red apple mounted on a brass cartridge casing, frozen mid-moment as a bullet exits the left side in a spray of white pulp

Harold Edgerton, .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple, 1964, printed 1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Harold Edgerton
Title
.30 Bullet Piercing an Apple
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1964, printed 1985
Medium
Dye coupler print
Dimensions
Image: 14 × 17 15/16 in. (35.6 × 45.6 cm) Primary support: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm) Mat: 26 × 22 in. (66.04 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Accession Number
AC1996.119.53
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

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