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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Untitled, From West Virginia Series
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Untitled, From West Virginia Series

Artist Bruce Davidson (American, born 1933)
Artist Sara Macel (American, born 1981)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1964
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 4 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (12.5 × 19.1 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Tazewell
Object number82.100.31
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print photograph. A very dark image. Barely visible is an elderly white man inside a coal mine. He wears a helmet with the light on. Another beam of light, most likely from another helmet light, reflects onto coal in the foreground.

Scanned from a slide and color corrected by Ed Pollard.
Thomas Worthington Whittredge
1868
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1989
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Utagawa Hiroshige II
1842-1868
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1989
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2016.
Frederick Carl Frieseke
ca. 1915