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Harold Eugene Edgerton (United States, 1903–1990)
Bullet Through Jack, 1960
Silver gelatin print
Gift of Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
2013-4-4
Seventy years ago, MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton invented the electonic flash—allowing a speeding bullet to be caught on camera, frozen in place.
Seeing this photograph today, the power of the bullet provokes a lot of other ideas.
What does it make you think about?
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See works by Harold Edgerton phorographs in the Online Collection.
Selected by Anne Sautman and Jon Seydl
