About this trail:
Harold Edgerton and his camera witness the atomic blast in Nevada-- the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.
Trail link: http://www.trailfire.com/jeffm/trails/27175
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/jeffm/trailview/27175
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/jeffm/trailview/27175
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Harold Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast which was triggered Nevada - the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.
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One of the things Edgerton was asked to photograph was the night time detonation of an atomic bomb by the military. He managed to capture the process beautifully but also the strange beauty of destruction at the same time.
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In addition to having the scientific and engineering acumen to perfect strobe lighting commercially, Edgerton is equally recognized for his visual aesthetic: many of the striking images he created in illuminating phenomena that occurred too fast for the naked eye adorn art museums worldwide.
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galerie agathe gaillard-- some of edgerton's best
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"Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts."
