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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
[Circus]
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.

[Circus]

Artist Bruce Davidson (American, born 1933)
CultureAmerican
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 12 7/16 × 8 11/16 in. (31.6 × 22.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
SignedOn print verso: Signed by Bruce Davidson
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object number2018.44.6
On View
Not on view
DescriptionDepicts the human cannon from the Clyde Beatty Circus in the net, after he has been shot out of the cannon. He is shown wearing a helmet and a white outfit, walking across the net.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1958
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1967
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1958
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1958
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1970s
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1958
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2019.
Bruce Davidson
1964
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