LIFE photographer J.
R. Eyerman was born 111 years ago nowadays on Oct. 9,1906 in Butte Montana. In the 1957 book, LIFE Photographers: Their Careers and Favorite Pictures, and author Stanley Rayfield notes that “Eyerman’s technical innovations have helped push back the frontiers of photography. He perfected an electric eye mechanism to trip the shutters of nine cameras to make pictures of an atomic blast; devised a special camera for taking pictures 3600 feet beneath the surface of the ocean; successfully ‘speeded up’ color film to make previously impossible color pictures of the shimmering,changing forms and patterns of the aurora borealis. See some of his most well known images in nowadays’s Instagram account. (J.
R. Eyerman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #JREyerman #LIFElegends
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