About the American engineer and photographer, Harold EDGERTON (1903-1990)
"I am an electrical engineer and I work with strobe lights and circuits and make useful things." (© Harold EDGERTON)
"Born and raised in Nebraska, the longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical engineering professor Harold Eugene EDGERTON pioneered the transformation of the strobe from an obscure nineteenth-century invention into a key technology of the twentieth century." (© Steidl Verlag)
Photobooks by and on the work of Harold EDGERTON
'Electronic Flash/Strobe' (1979); 'Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography' (1984); 'Sonar Images' (1986); 'Seeing the Unseen: Dr. Harold E Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley' (1994, by Roger R. Bruce); 'Stopping Time' (2000, by Guy Kayafas and Jussim); 'After and Before: Documenting the A-Bomb' (2003); 'The Anatomy of Movement' (2010, by Jose Gomez Isla); 'Seeing the Unseen' (2019, by Kurtz/Douglas/Kayafas); #Flash! Seeing the Unseen by Ultra High-speed Photography' (2021)