Walking House

Laurie Simmons · 1989

You're looking at Walking House — a photograph by Laurie Simmons, nineteen eighty-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.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 6' 11 1/4" × 47 3/8" (211.4 × 120.4 cm) · Credit Richard E. and Christie Salomon Fund and The Family of Man Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 417: Plate (page 31) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Shape of Things, 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