The Shape of Things

Carrie Mae Weems · 1993

This is The Shape of Things — a photograph by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems, nineteen ninety-three. 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 prints · Dimensions Each approx. 26 7/8 × 26 15/16" (68.2 × 68.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Robert B. Menschel

Hanging beside it in The Robert B. Menschel Galleries: My August, Bell-47D1 Helicopter

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Walking House, Willows, House by the Railroad, Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Bucks County Barn