Fan and Smoke Vortices

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© The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, courtesy Palm Press, Inc.
Fan and Smoke Vortices
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Fan and Smoke Vortices

Date1934
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 16 1/16 x 19 15/16 in. (40.8 x 50.6 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-38
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Label TextIn 1934, Edgerton exhibited this photograph at the Royal Photographic Society in London, where he and his collaborators—former students Herbert E. Grier and Kenneth J. Germeshausen—were awarded a bronze medal. This early photograph captures the spiraling vortices of smoke caused by whirling fan blades.
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