Fan and Smoke Vortices
Date1934
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
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)
sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
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.
