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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Pigeon Released
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Pigeon Released

Artist Harold Edgerton (American, 1903-1990)
CultureAmerican
Date1965
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 14 1/8 × 18 in. (35.9 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 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 number96.14.8
Not on view
DescriptionThis photograph depicts a pigeon flying out of a person's outstretched hands.

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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