Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton

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Harry N. Abrams, Oct 1, 2000 - Photography - 168 pages
Illustrates the phenomenal range of Harold Edgerton's work & includes some of the world's most famous photographs. The MIT scientist himself describes his efforts to capture the world in microseconds.

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Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton, Volume 2
Estelle Jussim
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About the author (2000)

Edgerton was one if America's most acclaimed scientists, kown not only for his high-speed flash photography but also for his lifelong explorations of underwater phenomena. He invented most of the sonar equipment used by Jacques Cousteau and the team that found the wreck of the Titanic.

Estelle Jussim has taught at the graduate school of Simmons College since 1972. She is the author of "Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton"; "Landscape as Photograph "(with Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock); "Frederic Remington, the Camera, and the Old West"; "Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete" (winner of the New York Photographic Historical Society Prize for Distinctive Achievement in the History of Photography); and "Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Techniques in the Nineteenth Century." She lives in Granby, Massachusetts.

Kayafas was Harold Edgerton's picture editor as well as his student. He is founder of the photography laboratory Palm Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleStopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton
AuthorsGus Kayafas, Estelle Jussim
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarry N. Abrams, 2000
ISBN0810927179, 9780810927179
Length168 pages
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