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Harold Edgerton
Fire Cracker explosioncirca 1956

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Black and white photograph of a dark, billowing cloud of material expanding horizontally from a narrow vertical column, with a translucent dome shape above, against a pale gray circular vignette

Harold Edgerton, Fire Cracker explosion, circa 1956, 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
Fire Cracker explosion
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1956
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/2 × 7 1/8 in. (21.59 × 18.1 cm) Primary support: 10 × 8 3/16 in. (25.4 × 20.8 cm) Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.18 × 35.56 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Accession Number
AC1996.119.27
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.