Reanimating Edgerton's Work: Time-lapse, Stroboscopic, and High Speed Photography — MIT Museum Views
Originally presented as a projection installation at the MIT Museum, watch a reanimated montage of historic footage and works from the museum’s collection of Harold “Doc” Edgerton (1903-1990), an engineer, inventor, educator, and photographer. All footage included in this project was produced by Edgerton, primarily between 1940-1970.
Music by Chris Zabriskie: https://chriszabriskie.com/
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About Harold “Doc” Edgerton:
Edgerton is noted for his pioneering work in the development of the stroboscope, a 19th century instrument that he made famous through both high-speed photography and scientific research.
He arrived at MIT in 1926, earned master’s and doctoral degrees and beginning in 1928 began a teaching career at MIT which continued until his death at age 86 in 1990. His non-technical photographs and films of milk drops, birds in flight, and bullets cutting cards and whizzing through fruit became world famous.
At the request of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Edgerton co-developed an ultra-high speed camera called the Rapatronic. Edgerton did witness and took photographs at many atom and hydrogen bomb tests (although he was not involved in this work during World War II). This video includes some of the dramatic U.S. government motion picture footage of post-WWII nuclear tests from Edgerton’s collection.
For more on the life and work of Harold Edgerton, please consider the new volume Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen published by Steidl in collaboration with the MIT Museum Edited by Ron Kurtz, Deborah Douglas and Gus Kayafas, it features contributions by MIT Museum curators, Deborah Douglas and Gary Van Zante: https://www.amazon.com/Harold-Edgerto...
Also visit the Edgerton Digital Collections Project website: http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/