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Football placement kick

Portfolio TitleSeeing the Unseen
Artist Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903 - 1990)
Printer Gus Kayafas (American, born 1947)
Date1934; printed 1977
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (29.21 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1318
SignedSigned and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "25/60 / HAROLD EDGERTON"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "74-5-82", "P5.074.005.82"
Edition/State/Proofed. 25/60 + 10APs
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionFoot of a football player making contact with a football.Exhibition History

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 –  May 1, 1983.

Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 - November 11, 1993, no cat.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Harold Edgerton
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