At M.I.T. Harold Edgerton (1903–1990) experimented with stop-motion strobe photography for many years before he was able to achieve his famous images of a bullet cutting through a playing card or a hammer shattering a light bulb.

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"Golf Ball with Blur"

Harold Eugene Edgerton, 1935
vintage gelatin silver print
4.5″ × 3.5″