The Tragedy of Hiroshima

Carrie Mae Weems

2008

  • Titles The Tragedy of Hiroshima (Title)
  • Artist Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953
  • Medium archival pigment print
  • Dimensions image: 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm) sheet: 59 1/2 × 49 3/4 in. (151.1 × 126.4 cm) frame: 61 1/8 × 51 1/8 × 2 1/4 in. (155.3 × 129.9 × 5.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Lydia C. Cheney and James D. Sokol, AFI.214.2013, image © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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The Tragedy of Hiroshima, Carrie Mae Weems, archival pigment print
A black and white photograph showing a young Black girl, turned slightly toward the camera, standing in front of a sculpture of a Pieta theme.
Abstracted figures below on a brown background and one above in a cloud against a blue sky.
Two-sided painting.