WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Faster than
the Eye Can See: Photographs by Harold Edgerton, featuring 18
photographs produced at ultra high-speed, on view February 13,
2010 April 25, 2010. Dr. Harold Doc Edgerton redefined the
limits of vision, showing things invisible to the unaided eye by
stopping time and making it possible to witness split seconds.
Produced with a strobe light, which he invented, Edgertons
exposures could be as brief as 1/1,000,000 of a second, allowing
him to capture a bullet piercing an apple or a hummingbird in
flight. Published in Life magazine and National Geographic and
displayed frequently at the Museum of Modern Art, Edgertons
photographs have amazed millions since the late 1930s. And
although he photographed in the service of scientific and
commercial research, Edgerton appreciated the importance of
aesthetics to create wonder and communicate ideas. For 25 years
he labored to get the perfect picture of a milk drop and the
coronet created by its splashthe result