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Celebrating the high-speed photography of late MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton
Edgerton helped further many fields, from sports photography to side-scan sonar and marine archaeology to wartime night reconnaissance photography. He accompanied Jacques Cousteau on numerous marine expeditions and searched for shipwrecks both ancient and modern, and he developed 50, watt-second strobes used for nighttime aerial reconnaissance in support of the Normandy landings in June
Though Edgerton began his development of high-speed imaging technology for science and engineering purposes, many of his photos became acclaimed works of art and are found in collections around the world. He helped many students pursue their dreams, sometimes by simply supplying a workbench, tools, and a supportive atmosphere.
Vandiver told of his own high-speed, color schlieren photography project (a technique to photograph the flow of air around objects). With Edgerton’s support and mentorship, the photos Vandiver created captured vivid images of the hot air above a candle, ice cubes in water, and soap bubbles. These images also enjoyed wide circulation.
At MIT, Edgerton was known not just for his photography but for his generous spirit and love of learning. The MIT Edgerton Center, founded by
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(This is a reprint of an art history paper written for London Art College)
The item for my last paper is the above original stroboscopic photograph of Harold Edgerton holding a balloon with a bullet being fired at it. The back has the original information sheet from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I pick the photograph because it involved a new way to look at the world and because it touches on the questions of what is art. Edgerton did not consider himself be to an artist nor his photos to be artworks, but many collect his photos as artworks and they are hung in art museums.
Harold Edgerton was an American professor of electrical engineering at MIT who became world famous for his invention of the strobe light (the basis for today’s flash photography) and stroboscopic photography. The latter is a form of ultra high speed photography using strobe lights. This image was photographed at 1/2,,th of a second.
Edgerton was studying turbine engines in his s Cambridge Massachusetts lab and wanted clear stop-action images of the engines in motion. However, camera systems of the day could not take such high speed photographs because their shutters opened and closed too slowly. A turbine is many times faster than a camera shutter. Instead of ‘cli
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