Harold Edgerton

Cutting the Card Quickly (Jack of Hearts)

1964, printed 1976–80

A bullet pierces a Jack of Hearts playing card, tearing paper and scattering fragments.

A bullet pierces a Jack of Hearts playing card, tearing paper and scattering fragments.

Not on view

Date
1964, printed 1976–80

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.6 × 50.6 cm) Image: 14 1/4 × 18 7/16 in. (36.2 × 46.8 cm)

Accession number
96.125.10

Edition
Ed. 20

Credit line
Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum.

API
artworks/10925

Part of a series:
Ten Photographs
8 works

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Harold Edgerton
122 works in the collection, 6 exhibitions

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