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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Milk Drop Coronet
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Milk Drop Coronet

Artist Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990)
CultureAmerican
DateLate 1930s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 18 × 14 1/4 in. (45.7 × 36.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 19 3/4 × 16 in. (50.2 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 25 1/2 × 22 1/4 in. (64.8 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Object number96.14.20
Not on view
DescriptionThis photographs depicts the coronet-effect produced by a drop of milk falling into a container of milk.

Exhibition History"Revealing the Unseen: The Split-Second Photography of Harold Edgerton," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Prints and Drawings Gallery, December 1, 1996 through February 16, 1997.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1957
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1960
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1957
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Harold Edgerton
1936
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1936
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
Harold Edgerton
1934
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1944
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1934
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Harold Edgerton
1944
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1952
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1939-1940