Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was born in 1903 in Fremont, Nebraska.  As a teenager, Edgerton learned about photography from his uncle who lived in nearby Aurora.  He even built his own dark room in his house!  Eventually, he took his creative and innovative mind to MIT for graduate school in 1926.  There, he began to work with the stroboscope which creates brief, repeating bursts of light, which enable an observer to view fast moving objects in a series as-if frozen images, rather than a single continuous blur.  By 1931 Edgerton had invented ultra-high-speed and stop-action photography! Later, he also invented types of underwater photography, which added together, made him one of the most well-known photographers of his time.  Sadly, Edgerton died of a heart attack in 1990, but his images are still live and well.

The beautiful motion, color combinations, and created subjects will be appreciated for years to come!