The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

Porcelain Doll Pink Dress

2011

Kent Krugh

(American, 1955-)
America
digital print made from linear accelerator X-ray photogram and digital photograph
Image: 46.6 x 38.2 cm (18 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.); Paper: 55.9 x 43.3 cm (22 x 17 1/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 61 cm (28 x 24 in.)
Gift of the Artist 2013.78
© Kent Krugh
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Kent Krugh uses the doll as a stand-in for the physical and spiritual embodiment of humanity.

Description

Kent Krugh’s work as a medical physicist provided him access to a linear accelerator. He placed the doll on top of x-ray film and bombarded it with high energy x-rays, then photographed its outside with a digital camera. The x-ray photogram and the digital photograph were combined in Photoshop to create an image that could not exist without photography.
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