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Hammer Breaks Glass Plate

Harold Edgerton American, 1903-1990
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About the Artwork

Hammer Breaks Glass Plate

1933

Harold Edgerton

1903-1990

American

Unknown

Gelatin silver print

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

Photographs

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

1996.204

Copyright Not Evaluated

Markings

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

Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, bottom right, verso: 86/90

Provenance

1996, Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA);
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Kayafas, Gus ed. Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton. New York, 1987, p.46, (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Harold Edgerton, Hammer Breaks Glass Plate, 1933, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 1996.204.

Hammer Breaks Glass Plate
Hammer Breaks Glass Plate