Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #08 | Page 10

photo:Bullet through the Apple, 1964, Dye Transfer print – 1984

© Harold Edgerton Archive, MIT. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

When Gus was a
freshman in 1965, at
MIT, he noticed a Xerox
black and white poster all over MIT bulletin boards of this
image, stating ‘Lecture

by Harold Edgerton –
Doc – How to Make
Applesauce at MIT!’ .
Featuring a 30” caliber bullet (faster than
the speed of sound)
perched on a long shell
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from a military rifle,
Edgerton, always seeking the most effective
way to communicate,
selected the blue background and the unique
support – hence dra-