Rock, Bakers Beach, San Francisco, California

Ansel Adams · c. 1931

This one's called Rock, Bakers Beach, San Francisco, California — a photograph by the American artist Ansel Adams, around nineteen thirty-one. 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, printed 1979 · Dimensions 7 3/4 × 10" (19.7 × 25.4 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 509: Untitled, Untitled (Western Scene)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Révélateur Tachiste, Corn Leaf Rhythm, Barber Shop Chord, Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Spider, Synchromy in Blue