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Home > Contents > Themes > Stroboscopes and stroboscopy

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Introduction
943.01   Stroboscopes and stroboscopy
Harold E. Edgerton
943.02   Harold E. Edgerton: Examples
943.03   Harold E. Edgerton: Baton
943.04   Harold E. Edgerton: Bullets
943.05   Harold E. Edgerton: Milk drop
943.06   Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge
This theme includes example sections and will be revised and added to as we proceed. Suggestions for additions, improvements and the correction of factual errors are always appreciated.
 
  
Introduction 
  
943.01   Scientific >  Stroboscopes and stroboscopy 
  
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A stroboscope is a mechanical or electronic device used to make moving objects appears stationary or slowed down so their properties can be studied. although there were developments in the nineteenth century by Joseph Plateau and Simon von Stampfer it was in the twentieth century that Etienne Oehmichen and Harold E. Edgerton perfected high speed flashes. The beauty of the photographs created by Harold E. Edgerton at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology raised public awareness of the stroscope and his photographs have become both scientific evidence and collectible as works of art. 
  
Harold E. Edgerton 
  
943.02   Scientific >  Harold E. Edgerton: Examples 
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Harold Edgerton (1903-1990): A pioneer of so many scientific uses of photography from stroboscopes, high speed flash in the 1930's capable of speeds of 1/100,000th of a second, the capturing of a birds wings in flight - these and many more are in his classic book Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton.
 
The scientific photographs of Harold Edgerton cross the boundaries into popular art because of their virtuosity and ability to clearly show a complex movement in a single shot. Using stroboscopes the entire action or a unique moment is captured on a single photograph. Muybridge captured each movement in a separate photograph, Bragaglia as a blur of motion but Edgerton combines the two with clarity.
 
The reason why these images are so popular is that they amaze the public with the fact that the movement of a speeding bullet can be captured with such precision.
 
This tradition is continued by people like Professor Andrew Davidhazy at the Rochester Institute of Technology who has used a wide variety of photographic techniques to enhance scientific understanding. 
  
943.03   Scientific >  Harold E. Edgerton: Baton 
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943.04   Scientific >  Harold E. Edgerton: Bullets 
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943.05   Scientific >  Harold E. Edgerton: Milk drop 
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943.06   Scientific >  Harold E. Edgerton: Night experiments at Stonehenge 
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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Harold E. Edgerton 
  
Bruce, Roger (ed.), 1994, Seeing the Unseen: Dr. Harold Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley, (Rochester, NY: George Eastman House) [Δ] 
  
Edgerton, Harold E., 2000, Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time: A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton, (The MIT Press) [Δ] 
  
Edgerton, Harold E. & Killian, James R., 1954, Flash!: Seeing the Unseen By Ultra High-speed Photography, (Boston: Charles T. Branford) [Second edition] [Δ] 
  
Edgerton, Harold E. & Killian, James R., 1984, Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography, (The MIT Press) isbn-10: 0262550105 isbn-13: 978-0262550109 [Δ] 
  
Jussim, E., 1987, Stopping Time, The Photographs of Harold Edgerton, (New York: Abrams) [Δ] 
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com 
  
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A wider gaze
Anthropology and ethnology • Archaeology • Astronomy • Botany • Expeditions and exploration • Geology • Medical • Movement and motion • Nuclear • Palaeontology • Photogrammetry • Photomicroscopy • Scientific experiments • Stroboscopes and stroboscopy • X-rays
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