This Photo was taken by Harold Edgerton. I find it fascinating for the high speed requirements of the photo and for incorporating (although you couldn't tell by the photo) a strobe light. He was one of the first photographers to use multi-flash imagery, making what was not originally able to be seen by the eye, seen. Other examples of his work include all the stages of an athletes motion and a drop of water dropping in a puddle. - Emily Schreiber
It didn't take very much time looking at this photo for one part of it to jump out at me. Although the bullet must have entered the right side of the apple and exited on the left, it appears as though both sides of the apple are exploding outwards. This gives the apple - and the picture - an interesting symmetry broken by the bullet to the left. I also think it is an excellent example of how a photograph, although by definition static, can actually capture a dynamic moment in a such a way that it gives us a more complete idea of the motion itself than we would have had by simply viewing the event as it happened.
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i remember seeing this photo when i was young!
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