Harold Eugen Edgerton was born in Freemont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903. He attended the University of Nebrasks-Lincoln where he received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1925. Edgerton then entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1926. In 1927 he earned an S.M. in electrical engineering and then became a professor at MIT and invented the electronic flash. He was the first person to take high speed color photographs and was a pioneer of multiflash and microsecond imagery. He is best known for his use of a speedlight to stop motion on film. In 1934 Edgerton was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Photographic Society and in 1973 he received the National Medal of Science. His work was featured in the Oct. 1987 edition of National Geographic Magazine in an article entitled, ”Doc Edgerton: the man who made time stand still.” On January 4, 1990 he passed away from a heart attack at the age of 86.
I really find Edgerton’s photographs fascinating because they are pictures that the naked eye can not actually see. This man’s work made breakthroughs both in the fields of photography and science. I think his images are entertaining, yet at the same time, also educational in the way that we can now see how different things move at high speeds and action.
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