Los Angeles, California

Tseng Kwong Chi · 1979

Before you is Los Angeles, California — a photograph by the Canadian artist Tseng Kwong Chi, nineteen seventy-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. You can pick out the soldier, and the portrait of a person.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 2024 · Dimensions 36 × 36" (91.4 × 91.4 cm) · Credit Committee on Photography Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 202: Houston Street, New York, New York

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled from the series African Spirits, Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story, In the Spring, Prends garde! (Look out!), Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Frida Kahlo

More by Tseng Kwong Chi here: New York, New York, New York, New York, San Francisco, California