HAROLD EDGERTON (1903 1990) Milk Drop Coronet

Sale 2531 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 3,750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500

HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)
Milk Drop Coronet. Dye transfer print, the image measuring 9 1/4x7 3/8 inches (23.5x18.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with E.G. & G. Inc. [Edgerton Germeshausen & Grier] and inventory hand stamps on verso. 1957

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Edgerton, a scientist and professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T., became interested in photography in 1931. He employed a stroboscope to generate extremely brief bursts of light in his photographic studies. These stop-action pictures--interdisciplinary experiments in which science merged with art--made it possible to observe movements that were too fast for the human eye to assimilate.

In his milk drop images, Edgerton learned that the shape of the coronet was determined by the three factors: the size of the drop, the height from which it fell, and the thickness of the film of milk on the surface from a previous drop.