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Notes on this view:

This portrait of Dr. Harold Edgerton was made using the multi-flash strobe technique. Dr. Edgerton was an electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for his use of the stroboscope, which he is credited for perfecting and introducing into common use in photography. In 1937 he began collaborating with photographer Gjon Mili who employed the multi-flash strobe technique in which several exposures are made on a single negative. The image is taken in a darkened room, the camera’s shutter is wide open, and the film is exposed by rapid, successive flashes of the strobe. This allows the camera to record a sequence of movement.