Kitchen Table Series Carrie Mae Weems
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Kitchen table series carrie mae weems. Considered to be one of the artists most important bodies of work carrie mae weems kitchen table series interweaves themes of race class gender friendship love loss power and motherhood. Go back to the beginning. Carrie mae weems reflects on her seminal kitchen table series decades after she photographed it just in time for its first stand alone book release.
When carrie mae weemss seminal kitchen table series was published for the first time as a stand alone book in 2016 decades after the completion of the series it was this poignant image untitled woman and daughter with makeup that was chosen for the front cover. The intimate and often political content of this narrative series finds common ground around the kitchen table transcending the separation of domestic and civic space. The kitchen one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women.
Filmed in her syracuse studio artist carrie mae weems discusses the impetus for her work the kitchen table series 1990 a photographic investigation of a single domestic space. Carrie mae weems born april 20 1953 is an american artist who works with text fabric audio digital images and installation video and is best known for her work in the field of photography. The kitchen table series 1990.
Kitchen table series hardcover 2016 by sarah lewis author adrienne edwards author carrie weems photographer eve sandler is a visual artist performer and writer living and working in new york. Jack shainman gallery new york. Kitchen table series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the american artist carrie mae weems.
Things said about the artist. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up kitchen table series tell a story of one womans life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. Carrie mae weemss the kitchen table series 1990 is among the most significant photographic achievements in contemporary artin 20 photographs and 14 text panels weems features herself in carefully staged scenes around the same kitchen table revealing intimate moments of everyday life such as laughing with friends studying alongside her daughter or having a drink with her next.