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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Cecil Henry Gets Off The Horse Quickly
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Cecil Henry Gets Off The Horse Quickly

Artist Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990)
CultureAmerican
Date1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 11 × 8 9/16 in. (27.9 × 21.7 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Object number96.14.13
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis photographs depicts bronco rider Cecil Henry being thrown from his horse during a rodeo performance.

Exhibition History"Revealing the Unseen: The Split-Second Photography of Harold Edgerton," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Prints and Drawings Gallery, December 1, 1996 through February 16, 1997.
Scanned from a slide by Adam Pape.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1950-1990
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1934
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1960
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1964
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1964
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Harold Edgerton
1936
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1936
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
Late 1930s
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1944
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Harold Edgerton
1944
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1952
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1939-1940