Héritage 2 from the series Masks

Angèle Etoundi Essamba · 1999

Here we have Héritage 2 from the series Masks — a photograph by Angèle Etoundi Essamba, nineteen ninety-nine. 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. In the picture, look for the human face.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 15 × 18 7/16" (38.1 × 46.8 cm) · Credit Committee on Photography Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: Grand Jazz Band (New Orleans), African Play, IV

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Chess Players, Morphologie du rêve #5 from the series Sama Guent Guii