id: 157227 accession number: 1994.105 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.105 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:18.270000 Formation of a Drop, c. 1938. Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903–1990). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 12 x 9.6 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); paper: 12.6 x 10.3 cm (4 15/16 x 4 1/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Lawrence Hitchcock Fund 1994.105 © 1992 Harold Edgerton Trust, courtesy Palm Press, Inc. title: Formation of a Drop title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1938 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1943 current location: creditline: Lawrence Hitchcock Fund copyright: © 1992 Harold Edgerton Trust, courtesy Palm Press, Inc. --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Vintage gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903–1990) - artist Harold Eugene Edgerton American, 1903-1990 Inventor, scientist, and teacher Harold Edgerton became internationally known for his high-speed flash photographs of rapidly moving objects: a bullet ripping through an apple, the beating of a hummingbird's wings, the impact of a baseball on a bat. After receiving his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1931), Edgerton pursued pioneering research in stroboscopic photography that led to the development of the modern electronic speed flash and the ability to capture on film events not visible to the unaided human eye. Using various methods of flash synchronization, he was able to visually freeze the movements of birds, athletes in motion, and phenomena such as a drop of milk splashing onto a plate. Although best known for his many spectacular stop-action photographs, Edgerton was also involved in the development of underwater cameras and strobes, as well as sonar devices for geological research and underwater archaeological exploration. In addition to a distinguished teaching career at mit, Edgerton (born in Fremont, Nebraska) was a founding partner of eg&g, a company specializing in electronic technology. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 12 x 9.6 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 12.6 x 10.3 cm (4 15/16 x 4 1/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: none translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 144 url: --- IMAGES