Edgerton, Harold E.
American (1903-1990)

TITLE ON OBJECT: .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple, 1964 A microsecond exposure of a bullet travelling 2800 feet per second. This was used to illustrate "Doc" Edgerton's lecture on "How to make applesauce."
PUBLISHED TITLE: Shooting the Apple
PORTFOLIO TITLE: "Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs," Palm Press, Inc., 1985

1964 / print ca. 1984-1990, by Boris Color Lab, Boston, Massachusetts
PUBLISHER: Palm Press, Inc.
color print, dye imbibition (Dye Transfer) process
35.9 x 45.8 cm.
Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
96:0347:0007

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 91/150 (edition) / 8501.2091/6402

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jussim, Estelle. --Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. p. 126.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 305.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(signed) "Harold Edgerton" (in pencil) "8501.2091/6402"

copyright, Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation/Palm Press, Inc.

NOTES: Catalogued 8/96, DZ. Title and date from portfolio colophon. "Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs was produced between 1984 and 1990. The edition was initially planned as 100, published as 300, and finally modified to 150. Additionally, 26 lettered sets (A-Z) were produced for the artist and publisher and 30 Special Edition sets were produced for the investors who funded the project (SE 1 - SE 30 and identified by recto signatures on each print). This project was interrupted by Edgerton's death at 86. Some prints of Moscow Circus, 1963 and Diver, 1955 were not signed by Edgerton. Additionally a few copies of Diver, 1955 were produced later from the original matrices under the supervision of his printer and editor, Gus Kayafas." [Kayafas, December 1995] "This startling image first illustrated a lecture by Edgerton entitled, 'How to Make Applesauce at MIT.' Moments after it is pierced by the .30 caliber bullet, the apple disintegrates completely. What is so surprising is that the entry of the supersonic bullet is as visually explosive as the exit." [--Stopping Time--, p. 126] Alternate title from --Stopping Time--.