"A Mexican Artist Records his First Impressions of San Francisco"

Times Wide World Photos · 1930

Before you is "A Mexican Artist Records his First Impressions of San Francisco" — a photograph by the United States artist Times Wide World Photos, nineteen thirty. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 7 9/16 × 9 3/8" (19.2 × 23.8 cm) · Credit The New York Times Collection

Hanging beside it in The Philip Johnson Galleries: Building the Palace Of Cortez, Flower Market

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Happy Days, Untitled, Market