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Milk Drop Coronet

Photograph
1957 (photographed), after 1957 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Edgerton, Harold (photographer)

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

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleMilk 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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 54cm
  • Width: 34.5cm
Gallery label
(07 03 2014)
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
Credit line
Given by the artist. Copyright Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2002, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.569-1997

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Record createdAugust 5, 2003
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O83197/milk-drop-coronet-photograph-edgerton-harold/
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