Stopping Time [1964]


Harold Edgerton’s famous high speed picture of a bullet going through an apple. Taken in 1964, it became a very famous image , not least because it was such an unusual photo based on a great achievement in high speed photography. Edgerton, professor at MIT, is also inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography. He collaborated with Jacques-Yves Cousteau to experiment photographing some of the deepest seabeds in the world.

Stopping Time [1964]

Photographer: Harold Edgerton
Source: stanford.edu

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7 Responses
ann says:

thats amazing

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am"  
T says:

wow, how fast would you have to be to capture that?
..um, sorry i was browsing for pictures to do for photograpghy mixed media, and i found this site. can someone please tell me the name of this photograpgh? i know the phtograpgher, it’s just the title i need, thanks^^

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 7:53 am"  
Z says:

Apparently the title is “Stopping Time”.

What I would be interested in is the shutter speed and also how the shutter was synched up with the event, especially taking into consideration this photo is over forty years old.

Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 12:59 pm"  
Dan says:

its called stopping time

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 3:51 pm"  
s. says:

the photo was taken using a ’stroboscope’ which the photographer invented himself.. it’s sort of like a strobe light & was the first electronic flash the world has seen.
this was taken somewhere between 1/50 000 to 1/1 000 000 of a second.. which is ridiculously amazing.
he even caught an image at 1 billionth of a second. this guy was insane.

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 2:46 am"  
ralph joshua figurasin says:

thats great and amazing!!

Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 11:39 am"  
T says:

perhaps he took more than one? like really fast shutter speed or something?
then he just saw that in among all the others.
i dunno. its still amazing. O.O

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm"  

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