Milk Drop Coronet
Photograph
1957 (photographed), after 1957 (printed)
1957 (photographed), after 1957 (printed)
| Artist/Maker |
Image of the coronet-like pattern made on the surface of a liquid when a droplet falls into it. The whole of the image is red.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Milk Drop Coronet (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | C-type print |
| Brief description | 'Milk Drop Coronet', C-type print photographed by Harold Edgerton, 1957, printed later |
| Physical description | Image of the coronet-like pattern made on the surface of a liquid when a droplet falls into it. The whole of the image is red. |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2011-2012, label text :
Harold Edgerton (1903-90)
‘Milk Drop Coronet’
1957
Edgerton was an electrical engineer and professor
who used photography for scientific experimentation.
As inventor of the stroboscope, he was able to capture
high-speed events invisible to the naked eye. Here
he tried to produce a perfect coronet from a single
milk-drop falling into liquid. Edgerton’s photographs
are admired today as much for their artistic merit as
for their scientific innovation.
C-type print
Given by the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Museum no. E.569-1997
(07 03 2014) |
| Credit line | Given by the artist. Copyright Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2002, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.569-1997 |
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| Record created | August 5, 2003 |
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