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From: The Astonishing Stroboscope of Doc Edgerton, at Compound Eye, by Alex Wild. Original source: Edgerton Digital Collections. The image is a classic demonstration of stroboscope photography by the chief architect of the genre. Doc Edgerton’s image of dancer Gus Solomons has both scientific utility and aesthetic beauty. More of Edgerton’s pioneering strobe photography is [...]