Moving Through Light: Photo experiments by Harold Edgerton

These vintage strobe light photographs are a beautiful anatomy of motion:

Back Dive, 1954

Tennis Player, 1938

Baton, 1953

The Golfer, 1960

Basket Ball Player

Swirls and Eddies of a Tennis Stroke (1939)

Moving Skipping Rope, 1952

Martels and Mignon Act

Also take a look at the Edgerton Digital Collections. This is a great resource for more images, videos and techniques.