The artist Matthew Booth's new video (below), "Milk Drop Coronet," is a 3-D view of Harold Edgerton's famous 1936 photograph of the same name; it captures the moment when a drop of milk splashes into the shape of a crown.
Matthew Booth, 2013. From White Cube.
Trying to see the milk-drop crown has inspired technological advances. At the turn of the 20th century, a scientist named A.M. Worthington built a device that enabled him to control a drop's fall and time it to an electric spark. Edgerton, a scientist and photographer who worked at M.I.T. for 63 years, built upon Worthington's work when he developed stroboscopic technologies to view things like a bullet piercing an apple, a balloon in midpop and an atom bomb exploding — images the human eye had previously not perceived with such clarity. "Milk Drop Coronet" appeared in 1937 in the Museum of Modern Art's first photography exhibition, "Photography 1839–1937."
Now Booth, using today's technology, has expanded upon Worthington's and Edgerton's innovations. His six-minute video, whose view circles the event, was created by carefully placing 13 cameras that could shoot simultaneously around and above the splash; the array produced a series of images that were then processed with 3-D modeling software to generate an exact replica of the scene. Booth says that to achieve this effect with no computer assistance whatsoever would have required 8,640 cameras (one for each frame of the six-minute video) — a physical impossibility, considering the splash is about the size of a quarter.
"Milk Drop Coronet" and other works by Matthew Booth are on view through July 7 at White Cube in London.
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