Rising Dove

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Rising Dove

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Harold Edgerton

American Photographer · 1903–1990

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> Don't make me out an artist. I'm an engineer. I'm after the facts. Only the facts. Harold "Doc" Edgerton learned photography from an uncle in Aurora, Nebraska, during his high school years. Setting up a darkroom in his parents' kitchen, Edgerton went to work during the summer for the Nebraska Power and Light Company. In 1925 he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and went to w

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Date: about 1934
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

An electrical engineer by training, Harold Edgerton developed lighting and timing systems that enabled him to precisely capture ultra-high-speed motion, as well as action sequences in the tradition of stop-motion pioneer Eadweard J. Muybridge. Here a dove leaves a trainer's hands and spreads its wings to their fullest extent, revealing the complexity of its plumage and the aerodynamics of the tail feathers that stabilize its ascent.

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