Carrie Mae Weems /
Carrie Mae Weems /
edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis with Christine Garnier ; essays and interviews by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Huey Copeland, bell hooks, Coco Fusco, Carrie Mae Weems, Thelma Golden, Deborah Willis, Robin Kelsey, Katori Hall, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Thomas J. Lax, Kimberly Drew, Erina Duganne, Yxta Maya Murray, Kimeberly Juanita Brown, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, José Rivera, and Jeremy McCarter.
- xviii, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
- October files ; 25 .
- October files. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From here we saw what happened: Carrie Mae Weems and the practice of art history (2014) / 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 Thema 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, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, and Jennifer Blessing Carrie Mae Weems's convenings (2021) / Thomas J. Lax Carrie Mae Weems: the legendary photographer on becoming and exploring personhood through art (2016) / Kimberley Drew Family folktales: Carrie Mae Weems, Allan Sekula, and the critique of documentary photography (2011) / 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) / Kimberley Juanita Brown The wandering gaze of Carrie Mae Weems's 'The Louisiana Project' (2018) / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Public forum: 'Pictures and progress' (2018) / Carrie Mae Weems, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, José Rivera, and Jeremy McCarter
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art. In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography and contemporary art. Since the 1980s, Weems (b. 1953) has challenged the status of the black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work, film, and performance investigate spaces that range from the American kitchen table to the nineteenth-century world of historically black Hampton University to the ancient landscapes of Rome. These texts consider the underpinnings of photographic history in Weems’s work, focusing on such early works as The Kitchen Table series; Weems’s engagement with photographic archives, historical spaces, and the conceptual legacy of art history; and the relationship between her work and its institutional venues. The book makes clear not only the importance of Weems’s work but also the necessity for an expanded set of concerns in contemporary art—one in which race does not restrict a discussion of aesthetics, as it has in the past, robbing black artists of a full consideration of their work.
9780262043762 9780262538596
2019025837
Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- --Criticism and interpretation
Photographic criticism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From here we saw what happened: Carrie Mae Weems and the practice of art history (2014) / 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 Thema 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, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, and Jennifer Blessing Carrie Mae Weems's convenings (2021) / Thomas J. Lax Carrie Mae Weems: the legendary photographer on becoming and exploring personhood through art (2016) / Kimberley Drew Family folktales: Carrie Mae Weems, Allan Sekula, and the critique of documentary photography (2011) / 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) / Kimberley Juanita Brown The wandering gaze of Carrie Mae Weems's 'The Louisiana Project' (2018) / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Public forum: 'Pictures and progress' (2018) / Carrie Mae Weems, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, José Rivera, and Jeremy McCarter
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art. In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography and contemporary art. Since the 1980s, Weems (b. 1953) has challenged the status of the black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work, film, and performance investigate spaces that range from the American kitchen table to the nineteenth-century world of historically black Hampton University to the ancient landscapes of Rome. These texts consider the underpinnings of photographic history in Weems’s work, focusing on such early works as The Kitchen Table series; Weems’s engagement with photographic archives, historical spaces, and the conceptual legacy of art history; and the relationship between her work and its institutional venues. The book makes clear not only the importance of Weems’s work but also the necessity for an expanded set of concerns in contemporary art—one in which race does not restrict a discussion of aesthetics, as it has in the past, robbing black artists of a full consideration of their work.
9780262043762 9780262538596
2019025837
Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- --Criticism and interpretation
Photographic criticism.