
Collection Online as of March 24, 2023
(American, b. 1940)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 40.8 x 31 cm (16 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Paper: 50.3 x 40.3 cm (19 13/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2021.138
not on view
This self-portrait gives us little idea of the photographer’s features other than his braids since we see only Walker’s silhouette reflected in a streaky window. The photographer looks at his own reflection and, simultaneously, directly at us. Walker has said, “I look into the intersections of dark and light, into the shadows that grow the seeds of existence.”