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Death of a Lightbulb (I) by Harold Eugene Edgerton — VisualArtsDB

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Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Death of a Lightbulb (I)

Death of a Lightbulb (I)

Death of a Lightbulb (I)

Harold Eugene Edgerton

1931–1941

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 22.1 × 32.4 cm (8 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.4 cm (11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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