Cutting the Card Quickly!
Date1964, printed 1985
Artist
Harold Eugene Edgerton
(American scientist and photographer, 1903–1990)
MediumDye transfer print
Dimensionsimage: 14 1/8 × 18 1/16 in. (35.9 × 45.9 cm)
sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.8 × 50.6 cm)
sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.8 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Foundation, 1996
Object number1996-36
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextWitty and populist, Edgerton ups the ante on the classic marksman's trick of shooting a card, by shooting through the edge rather than the face of the card.