Antique Gun Firing
Date1936
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
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)
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 viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
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.
