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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Bullet Through Jack Of Hearts
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Bullet Through Jack Of Hearts

Artist Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1960
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 14 3/8 × 18 3/8 in. (36.5 × 46.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (56.5 × 64.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Object number96.14.25
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis photograph depicts a bullet piercing a Jack-of-Hearts playing card.

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.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
C. 1960
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1973
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
1940
Scanned from a slide by Adam Pape.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1950-1990
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harold Edgerton
1964
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
1964
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Harold Edgerton
1939-1940
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
1942