Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen

Author: Harold Edgerton

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Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9783958293083

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Edgerton invented the electronic flash, capturing what the human eye cannot see Harold Edgerton (1903-90) was an engineer, educator, explorer and entrepreneur, as well as a revolutionary photographer--in the words of his former student and Life photographer Gjon Mili, "an American original." Edgerton's photos combine exceptional engineering talent with aesthetic sensibility, and this book presents more than 100 of his most exemplary works. Seeing the Unseen contains iconic photos from the beloved milk drops and bullets slicing through fruit and cards, to less well known but equally compelling images of sea creatures and sports figures in action. Paired with excerpts from Edgerton's laboratory notebooks, the book reveals the full range of his technical virtuosity and his enthusiasm for the natural and human-built worlds. Essays by Edgerton students and collaborators J. Kim Vandiver and Gus Kayafas explore his approach to photography, engineering and education, while MIT Museum curators Gary Van Zante and Deborah Douglas examine his significance to the history of photography, technology and modern culture.

Seeing the Unseen
Seeing the Unseen

Author: Douglas Collins

Publisher: HP Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 9780935398212

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Disc includes: selected text and photos from the exhibition.

Stopping Time
Stopping Time

Author: Estelle Jussim

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography, Edgerton literally stops time in these remarkable photographs. A splashing milk drop, arrested with high-speed film and strobe, looks exactly like a king's crown. A golfer, shot at 100 flashes per second, swings his driver into an Archimedian spiral. Pictures of fencers, tennis players, rope-skippers and ping-pong enthusiasts, all caught in action sequences, call to mind futurist paintings with their frantic sequences of motion. Edgerton's inventions for underwater photography have yielded such marvels as his photo of the top of a lava mountain thousands of feet below the ocean's surface. His picture of Stonehenge, taken from a night-flying plane, brings the eerie stone slabs to life. An MIT scientist, Edgerton is a genuine artist who probes the laws of motion in a hitherto invisible world. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Educated Eye
The Educated Eye

Author: Nancy A. Anderson

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1611682126

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The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. With essays on Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic techniques that froze time and Eames's visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how we are taught to see the unseen.

Moments of Vision
Moments of Vision

Author: Harold E. Edgerton

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Published: 1979-07-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9780262050234

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Moments of Vision recounts Harold Edgerton's remarkable achievements in stroboscopy and electronic flash photography. It contains nearly two hundred photographs, including twelve pages in color, of many of the pioneer and classic images first published by Edgerton and Killian in Flash (1938) as well as numerous recent works by Edgerton and others using his stroboscopic inventions. Here are the famous milk drops, athletes and dancers in motion, bullets in transit, and hummingbird in flight-all made possible by the MIT scientist-engineer who pioneered the methods now widely used in stop-motion, night, and underwater photography.

Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education
Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9004499679

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When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.

American Photography
American Photography

Author: Vicki Goldberg

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0811826228

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This beautiful and informative photographic history includes images from 1900 to 1999. Many are often seen (bullet piercing the apple, splashing crown of milk, Sophia Loren looking askance at Jayne Mansfield's plunging decollete, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother); but most are probably unknown, because the photos were selected not only for their visual and cognitive qualities but also for their importance to the history and development of photographic technique and usage. The century is divided into thirds for explanation's sake, and there is at least one photograph for every year. While this is a picture book, the accompanying text provides informative introductions to the uses and abuses of perhaps the century's most important medium. The book is companion to the PBS series. Oversize: 12.5x9.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Each Wild Idea
Each Wild Idea

Author: Geoffrey Batchen

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002-02-22

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780262523240

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Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.

My Porsche Book
My Porsche Book

Author: René Staud

Publisher: Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783667101242

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With all the skills of a brilliant photographer, Rene Staud portrays all variants of this Porsche classic with 4-cylinder rear-engine and rear-wheel drive. As a dedicated collector, he presents all his photographic 356-icons - his complete studio fund. Moreover, photos taken by other owners of the 356 are shown as well. This comprehensive illustrated book about the Porsche 356 also deals with the story of photographer and visionary, Rene Staud. His special use of the flashlight, the Magicflash, gives the bodyworks an exceptional look, the cars become sculptures. An excellent book for any automobile fanatic. Text in English and German. Jan van Rossem, author, journalist and design editor, winner of numerous awards, with a good eye for the personal touch, neutrally observing and sensitive to nuances. 103 colour