Carrie Springer

Carrie Springer is senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she curated Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, and coorganized Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. Other exhibitions she has worked on there include The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, The Art of Richard Tuttle, and Kiki Smith: A Gathering. She has organized numerous other exhibitions including Debbie Fleming Caffery's 1994 show, Mexico, at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

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Debbie Fleming Caffery: The Spirit and the Flesh Text by Carrie Springer. Foreword and poem by Luis Alberto Urrea. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery lived and worked on the grounds of the Catholic church in a small village in northeastern Mexico using a tortilla shack as
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Carrie Springer

Debbie Fleming Caffery: The Spirit and the Flesh

Text by Carrie Springer. Foreword and poem by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Published by Radius Books

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery lived and worked on the grounds of the Catholic church in a small village in northeastern Mexico using a tortilla shack as her studio. In addition to the religious life of the town, she turned her lens on the nearby cantina that occasionally served as a brothel. The Spirit and the Flesh explores the themes of grace, redemption, sin and forgiveness that Caffery encountered in this community--of which she has said, "I felt incredibly comfortable in a culture rich in celebrations of religious feasts, with strong, independent, highly emotional people, much like the people I grew up with in southwest Louisiana. The brothel brought new elements into my work: secrets, sensual needs, desire and, often, unexpected love."
Debbie Fleming Caffery has been making photographs of the people and culture of her native Louisiana for more than 30 years; this is her fourth book.