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Death of a Light Bulb by Harold Eugene Edgerton — VisualArtsDB

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Death of a Light Bulb

Death of a Light Bulb

Harold Eugene Edgerton

1936

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 30.1 x 46.8 cm (11 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.) sheet: 40.5 x 50.5 cm (15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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