You Became a Scientific Profile; A Negroid Type; An Anthropological Debate; & A Photographic Subject
Artwork Details
- Title: You Became a Scientific Profile; A Negroid Type; An Anthropological Debate; & A Photographic Subject
- Artist: Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953)
- Date: 1995–96
- Medium: Chromogenic prints with sand-blasted text on frame glass
- Dimensions: Frame: 26 5/8 × 22 5/8 in. (67.6 × 57.5 cm), each
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund and Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.461a–d
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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