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"Since the 1980s, the artist Carrie Mae Weems has challenged the status of the black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work probes various spaces from the American kitchen table, to the historical archives of the Hampton School, to the ancient la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-
Other Authors: Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Series:October files.
Subjects:
Weems, Carrie Mae, > 1953- > Criticism and interpretation.
Weems, Carrie Mae, > 1953-
Photographic criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of contributors
  • From here we saw what happened: Carrie Mae Weems and the practice of art history (2021) / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
  • Specters of history (2014) / Huey Copeland
  • Diasporic landscapes of longing (1994) / bell hooks
  • Carrie Mae Weems (1996) / Coco Fusco
  • Compassion (2009) / Carrie Mae Weems
  • Carrie Mae Weems and the field (2021) / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, and Thelma Golden
  • Photographing between the lines: beauty, politics, and the poetic vision of Carrie Mae Weems (2012) / Deborah Willis
  • Foreword to Carrie Mae Weems: kitchen table series (2016) / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
  • Around the kitchen table (2016) / Robin Kelsey, Katori Hall, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, and Jennifer Blessing
  • Carrie Mae Weems's Convenings (2019) / Thomas J. Lax
  • Carrie Mae Weems: the legendary photographer on becoming and exploring personhood through art (2016) / Kimberly Drew
  • Family folktales: Carrie Mae Weems, Allan Sekula, and the critique of documentary photography / Erina Duganne
  • From here I saw what happened and I cried: Carrie Mae Weems's challenge to the Harvard Archive (2012) / Yxta Maya Murray
  • Carrie Mae Weems (2009) / Dawoud Bey
  • Photographic incantations of the visual (2015) / Kimberly Juanita Brown
  • The wandering gaze of Carrie Mae Weems's The Louisiana project (2018) / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
  • Public forum: "Pictures and progress" (2018) / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, José Rivera, and Jeremy McCarter
  • Index.