Dr. Harold Edgerton
The man who stopped time
P
hotography has illuminated so many areas
of the 20th century, but
none more so than the remarkable work by one of photography’s true pioneers. As an
Institute Professor at MIT, and
the inventor of the ‘strobe’ flash
in the early 1930s, ‘Doc’, as
he was affectionately known,
stopped time in its tracks. For
the first time we were able to
see the wonderful arc of the
tennis racket or a bullet breaking a sheet of glass and, of
course, a milk drop splash at
the moment of impact.
abstractions
by
GUS KAYAFAS
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