May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
HAROLD "DOC" EDGERTON (1903-1990)
Milk Drop Coronet. 1957; printed 1979.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 7x6 inches (17.8x15.2 cm.), the sheet 9x8 inches (22.8x20.3 cm.), with Edgerton's signature in ink on recto; enclosed in the original black mat.

WITH--Harold E. Edgerton and James R. Killian, Jr. Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of Edgerton's groundbreaking imagery as well as the scientist at work. Oblong 4to, black boards; photo-pictorial dust jacket, very minor rubbing on rear; enclosed in the original lucite slipcase. SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY EDGERTON AND KILLIAN. (The MIT Press), (1979)