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Multiflash photograph of Moscow Circus tumblers performing at the Boston Public Garden in 1963. Here Edgerton used a manually timed multiflash while an assistant kept the tumbling acrobat in the sighting tube of the powerful flash reflector. Because the arena lights could not be dimmed, a special shutter was required that opened and closed with each flash of the strobe, thereby excluding the intense ambient illumination. (see "Stopping Time" (1987), pp. 107-9). (CC)

Moscow Circus; Circus; Circus Performers -- Harold E. Edgerton Negative Collection subject term; Tumbling -- Harold E. Edgerton Negative Collection subject term; Boston Garden; Multiflash Photography -- Harold E. Edgerton Negative Collection subject term

HEE-NC-63013

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