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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Bullet Through King Of Diamonds
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Bullet Through King Of Diamonds

Artist Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990)
CultureAmerican
DateC. 1960
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 9/16 × 10 in. (19.2 × 25.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 8 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (22.7 × 27.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Object number96.14.26
Not on view
DescriptionThis photograph depicts a bullet piercing a King-of-Diamonds 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.
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