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Harold E. Edgerton

Fremont/Nebraska 1903 – 1990 Boston

Coronet. 1935

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 24,6 × 19,3 cm (26,1 × 20,8 cm) (9 ⅝ × 7 ⅝ in. (10 ¼ × 8 ¼ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Harold E. Edgerton. Coronet. 1935.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,650

 

- 6,980

Sold for:

4,375 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 24,6 × 19,3 cm (26,1 × 20,8 cm) (9 ⅝ × 7 ⅝ in. (10 ¼ × 8 ¼ in.)). Dated and numbered by Harold Edgerton in pencil on the reverse: "1935 - 182-3". With handling marks.

Gus Kayafas (Edgerton's printer and executor of his estate)

Harold E. Edgerton and James R. Killian: Flash! Seeing the unseen by ultra high-speed photography. Boston 1939, p. 123 (there caption: Here is a diadem, decorated with pearls raised above the rim, produced by a drop of milk falling upon a plate covered with a thin layer of milk. In the land of splashes, what the scientist knows as Surface Tension is a sculptor in liquids, and fashions from them delicate shapes none the less beautiful because they are too ephemeral for any eye but that of the high-speed camera.) / Exh. cat.: Seeing the unseen. Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the wonders of Strobe Alley. Rochester, George Eastman House; Winston-Salem, Sci Works; Seattle, Pacific Science Center, 1994/96, p. 30 (there titled: Coronet of milk) / Ron Kurtz, Deborah G. Douglas and Gus Kayafas (ed.): Harold Edgerton. Seeing the unseen. Göttingen, Steidl, 2018, p. 24

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