EDGERTON PHOTOGRAPHS MAKE LIFE'S TINY MOMENTS SEEM MIRACULOUS.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: May 23, 2003 | Copyright information

Following in the fleet footsteps of 19th century time-motion studies photographer Eadweard Muybridge, MIT scientist Harold Edgerton wowed the mid-20th century with his use of strobes and electronic flashes for photographic illumination.

With a crystalline precision, his photos stopped time and turned daily life into a magic act. Appropriately titled "Seeing the Unseen," his exhibit of 34 silver gelatin and color dye transfer prints catches, among other things, water as it pours out of a faucet in 1932, the stream transformed into crystal by the speed of the flash.

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