Antique Gun Firing

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Antique Gun Firing
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Antique Gun Firing

Date1936
Artist (American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 14 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (36.2 x 47 cm)
sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-40
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextThis gun took its own picture as the explosion of the bullet triggered a microphone, visible in the foreground, that released the stroboscopic flash. The bullet is barely out of the muzzle of the gun, still hidden in the massive volume of smoke.
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
before 1952
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1942
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1952
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1934
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1934
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1936
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1957, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1938, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1973, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1965, printed 1985
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
1964, printed 1985