Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-

Description

xviii, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"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 landscapes of Rome. Tugging at established roots of power that perpetuate violence and injustice, Weems's photographic portraits of her muse have not only become iconic, but she has become a rallying voice for change through her engaged performances, video work, and convenings. This October Files volume brings together critical essays and interviews that explore Weems's work, shedding light on her interventions in the fields of photography, African American art, and the institutions that shape the field of art history at large. Essays by Deborah Willis, Erina Duganne, Sarah Lewis, Robin Kelsey, Katori Hall, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, and Jennifer Blessing that probe the underpinnings of photographic history in Weems's work, primarily focusing on her earliest series from the 1980s and 1990s, including The Kitchen Table series. Texts by Yxta Maya Murray, Kimberly Juanita Brown, and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw that reconsider how Weems engages the photographic archive as in From Here I Saw What Happened series, historical spaces in Roaming and The Louisiana Project, or the legacy of critical aesthetic concepts like the sublime in art history. Engaging beyond the art object, Huey Copeland, Coco Fusco, and Thomas Lax consider Weems's impact of the space of her exhibitions by making connections between installed work and the institutions. Interviews also operate as a critical form of analysis for Weems's body of work, so we have included a variety of more-recent interviews with fellow photographer Dawoud Bey, MET social media manager Kimberly Drew, and acclaimed Curator Thelma Golden, among others. These essays not only provide a clear glimpse at the writing on Weems, but also indicate numerous horizons on how to interpret her work for future scholars"--

Series Statement

October files ; 25

Uniform Title

October files ; 25.

Subject

• Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- > Criticism and interpretation
• Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-
• 1900-1999
• African American women photographers > Exhibitions
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• Racism in art
• Art, American > 20th century
• Social problems in art
• African American women in art
• Photographic criticism
• African American women artists
• African American women photographers
• Art, American

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience (note)

• Adults.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 22-692

ISBN

• 9780262043762
• 0262043769
• 9780262538596
• 0262538598

LCCN

2019025837

OCLC

1105746642

Author

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- author, photographer.

Title

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.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

October files ; 25

October files ; 25.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience

Adults.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-692