Milk Drop Coronet
Date1957, printed 1985
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumDye transfer print
Dimensionsimage: 18 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (47 x 34.3 cm)
sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-28
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextEdgerton began photographing milk dropping onto a plate in 1932, and it took him 25 years to capture this image with its near perfect crown of evenly spaced tips. One of Edgerton's best-known photographs, this work captures the split-second transformation of a falling milk droplet into a coronet as it makes impact.
