Lightning Storm (Multiple Exposure)
Artist
A. H. Binden
(American, active 1880s)
Date1888
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches (14.92 x 20.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3491
InscribedCopyright
"Copyright A.H. Binden, 1888"
In Negative
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Rotation 9. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 20, 2010 – March 13, 2011, no cat.
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 11 - November 13, 2011, no cat.
By the late 1870s, the sensitivity of photographic emulsions had increased significantly, allowing a new world of natural phenomena to be photographed. Lightning was a particular challenge, and A.H. Binden of Wakefield, Massachusetts, achieved some of the most notable results in the field. This image, his best-known photograph, was made on the evening of June 23, 1888. Like the work of Muybridge, Binden’s image was valued for revealing the unexpected complexity of familiar things. Here, Binden magnifies the inherent abstraction of this subject by allowing multiple lightning strikes to be recorded in the span of a single extended exposure.
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