MADRID.- Dr. Harold Edgerton stands apart
from
most contemporary photographers in that he is above all a scientist
searching
for new ways to see the world. His visual experiments produced optical
wonders,
which he would then re-use insistently in order to refine and polish his

technique. Trained as an electrical engineer, he invented a stroboscopic
flash
that would enable high-speed light flickers to record, with remarkable
definition, a bullet passing through objects and capture other
imperceptible
phenomena. The “multi-shot” technology of his flash allowed Edgerton to
freeze
the sequential movements of athletes, for instance, at infinitesimal
time
intervals.