- Indian Club Demonstration
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)
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A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Harold Edgerton transformed the field of
highspeed photography by adapting the stroboscope from a laboratory instrument into
a common photographic device. Flash photography usually captures a single
instant, but with a multi-flash strobe, Edgerton could record a series of
images on a single negative. The rate of the flash and length of exposure
determined the number of images registered on the film. For this image of a
black-clad man swinging an Indian club, Edgerton photographed at a rate of 100
flashes per second.
ProvenanceHarold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, Boston; given to MFAH, 1996.
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