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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Photographs exploring the natural world reveal that, "there exists a microcosm of happenings just outside our range of vision or attention: they are too quick or too small to notice." "None of the images in this book have been manipulated or montaged in any way . . .[The photographer] carefully controlled the set-up and lighting of every shot."
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Microcosmos is a remarkable photo-journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images. This new edition lifts the book to breathtaking realms. The extraordinary images, produced with the latest microphotography technologies, are displayed on more readerfriendly larger page layouts. Most of the 205 full-colour photographs were taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which allows us to see our world as never before. Each page features...
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography, Edgerton literally stops time in these remarkable photographs. A splashing milk drop, arrested with high-speed film and strobe, looks exactly like a king's crown. A golfer, shot at 100 flashes per second, swings his driver into an Archimedian spiral. Pictures of fencers, tennis players, rope-skippers and ping-pong enthusiasts, all caught in action sequences, call to mind futurist...
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