🌷 Tickets are now on sale for our Art in Bloom Preview Floral Luncheon! Join us Fri. April 25 from 11:30 am–1:30 pm for an elegant, seated luncheon and the opportunity to view floral arrangements throughout the museum galleries as part our our Art in Bloom event! Purchase tickets → cincinnatiartmuseum.org/artinbloom (fb)

Happy Birthday Harold Edgerton! Born on this day in 1903. Harold "Doc" Edgerton was a scientist who used photography to expand the capabilities of the human eye to microsecond vision. His pioneering research in stroboscopic photography laid the foundation for the development of the modern electronic flash. Edgerton developed the stroboscope in 1933 as a young instructor in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The device established him not only as one of the leading inventors of the twentieth century but also as a giant in the history of photography. ⁠ Edgerton was the first person to take high-speed color photographs and to record the split seconds of atomic explosions. He first used the startling image of a bullet and an apple to illustrate a lecture titled “How to Make Applesauce at MIT.” Almost immediately after the .30 caliber bullet penetrated it, the apple disintegrated. Surprisingly, the entry of the speeding bullet is as visually explosive as the exit. ⁠ Fun fact, the first image also served as the inspiration for the BulletBoys debut album released in 1988. Any hair metal band fans here? .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ . Image 1: Harold Edgerton (American, 1903–1990), Bullet and Apple, circa 1964, dye imbibition (Kodak dye transfer) print, Museum Purchase: Gift of Ruth Friedman, by exchange⁠, © Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2005, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc., Joseph Bellows Gallery, 1981.158 Image 2: Bullet Through Banana, circa 1964, dye imbibition (Kodak Dye Transfer) print, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, © Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, courtesy of Palm Press, inc., 1996.450.5 Image 3: Cutting the Card Quickly, circa 1964, dye imbibition (Kodak Dye Transfer) print, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, © Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, courtesy of Palm Press, inc., 1996.450.7 Image 4: Bullet Through King of Diamonds, circa 1964, dye imbibition (kodak dye transfer) print, Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 1996.452 #CAMCollection (fb)