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Harold Edgerton
Bullet through Banana1964, printed 1985

Not on view
Color photograph of a banana hanging from a wire, captured mid-impact as a bullet passes through it, with a burst of white debris exploding to the left

Harold Edgerton, Bullet through Banana, 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
Bullet through Banana
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1964, printed 1985
Medium
Dye coupler print
Dimensions
Image: 16 3/16 × 14 1/4 in. (41.1 × 36.2 cm) Primary support: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Mat: 26 × 22 in. (66.04 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Accession Number
AC1996.119.52
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.