Stroboscopic photos capture magic of motion in a single frame. Alan Huang of the Harvard WuShu Club photographed using a spear, with a stroboscopic flash. Niles Singer / Harvard Staff Photographer.

Stroboscopic image of FBI agent Del Bryce drawing his gun, 1945. Gjon Mili—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Stroboscopic image of a trick shot by billiards champion Willie Hoppe in 1941.

The Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili was hailed for his work illustrating entire sequences of human movement in a single photograph—a sight previously unseen in the mid-twentieth century ...