Atomic Bomb Explosion Before 1952, before 1952

  • Harold Edgerton, American, 1903-1990

Gelatin silver print

  • Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

1996.213

Signed, in pencil, on sheet, lower center, verso: Harold Edgerton

Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, bottom right, verso: 79/100

1996, Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Kayafas, Gus ed. Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton. New York, 1987, p. 144, (ill.).

Harold Edgerton, Atomic Bomb Explosion Before 1952, before 1952, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 1996.213.