Adam Hartley

Inedible Egg, ca. 1995

High-speed photograph; color negative film

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States

This explosion of an egg was a result of the impact of a .22-caliber bullet traveling at supersonic speeds. The image was made with an EG & G 541 microflash unit that provided an exposure time of 1 microsecond.