Title

In A Flash: Harold E Edgerton (1903–1990) & Split-Second Photography

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (31 October 1998 – 15 March 1998)

Date

(1998)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Photographs.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Dr Harold Edgerton was the inventor and developer of modern flash photography which made possible the type of stop-action imagery now routine in newspaper and television sports reportage. Edgerton's spectacular and stylish photographs were revolutionary and novel when first published in the 1930s and 40s. His studies of ultra-fast moving figures and objects, motion sequences and collisions reveal more than the eye can see. [Gallery media, 1998]