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.

Photographer: Harold Edgerton
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The first practical application of high-speed photography was Eadward Muybridge’s 1878 investigation into whether horses’ feet were actually all off the ground at once during a trot.

Photographer: Eadward Muybridge, first published in 1887.
Source: wikipedia.org