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Carrie Mae Weems

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Carrie Mae Weems: Hasselblad Award 2023

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited with text by Louise Wolthers, Dragana Vujanovic Östlind. Text by Elvira Dyangani Ose.

Weems’ outstanding oeuvre is honored with the prestigious photography prize

Hbk, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 164 pgs / 49 color / 78 bw. | 6/18/2024 | Out of stock
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Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things

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Foreword by Tom Eccles. Text by Thomas Lax, Huey Copeland. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

A grand panorama of race and civil unrest in America’s past and present

Clth, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color. | 8/8/2023 | In stock
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Carrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible

D.A.P./FUNDACIóN MAPFRE
Preface by Iris Dressler, Elvira Dyangani Ose. Text by LaCharles Ward, Fred Moten. Chronology and glossary by Raul Muñoz.

The most comprehensive survey of Weems’ genre-defying oeuvre yet published

Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 200 color. | 11/29/2022 | In stock
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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

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Foreword by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

“In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate…. Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person’s hands.” –Hilary Moss, New York Times

Hbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 78 pgs / 34 bw. | 11/1/2022 | In stock
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Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

DELMONICO BOOKS/GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM
Edited with text by Ron Platt. Introduction by Dana Friis-Hansen. Text by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems.

A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-artists famed for their mutual explorations of race, class and power

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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

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Text by Sarah Lewis, Adrienne Edwards.

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Carrie Mae Weems: Constructing History

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Foreword by Paula S. Wallace, Stephanie S. Hughley. Text by Laurie Ann Farrell, Deborah Willis.

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Carrie Mae Weems: Hasselblad Award 2023Carrie Mae Weems: Hasselblad Award 2023

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Louise Wolthers, Dragana Vujanovic Östlind. Text by Elvira Dyangani Ose.

In March 2023, Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) became the first Black woman to win the Hasselblad Award. Citing her outstanding achievements in the field of photography, the Hasselblad Foundation wrote that “Weems’s work has for decades anticipated salient issues of our time—the struggle for racial equality and human rights—with unflinching visual and ethical force.” Spanning not only photography but also film and installation, Weems’ oeuvre foregrounds both the joys and obstacles of Black womanhood, whether through her own personal experience or a more universal scope. This commemorative monograph showcases Weems’ most prominent works, including Family Pictures and Stories (1978–84), Kitchen Table Series (1990) and From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995–96). Other more recent series from 2016 and 2020 emphasize Weems’ continued innovations and contributions to photography.



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Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of ThingsCarrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things

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Foreword by Tom Eccles. Text by Thomas Lax, Huey Copeland. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40-year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality of contemporary American political life. For this new work, Weems created a seven-part film projected onto a Cyclorama—a panoramic-style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th century—where she addresses the turmoil of current events in the United States and the “long march forward.”
Drawing on news and TV footage from the civil rights era to today, elements of previous films such as The Madding Crowd (2017) and new film projects that bring us into our tumultuous present, the films in The Shape of Things combine documentary directness with poetic rhythm to create an enveloping experience. The films are narrated by Weems, and the layering of her resonant voice with these images articulates the dangerous mounting resistance to the “browning of America.” As Weems shows in these powerful works, America is irreversibly changed and changing.
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Weems lives in Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York.



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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 82   

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Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In DialogueDawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

Published by DelMonico Books/Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Edited with text by Ron Platt. Introduction by Dana Friis-Hansen. Text by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems.

Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late 1970s, and over the next 45 years these close friends and colleagues have each produced unique and influential bodies of work around shared interests and concerns. This publication brings together over 140 photographs and video art from the 1970s through the 2010s by two of our most notable and influential photo-based artists.
Since first meeting at the Studio Museum in Harlem five decades ago, Bey and Weems have maintained spirited and supportive mutual engagement while exploring and addressing similar themes: race, class, representation, and systems of power. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings their work together in five thematic groupings to shed light on their unique creative visions and trajectories, and their shared concerns and principles.
Photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) had his first exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. Since then, his work has been presented internationally to critical and popular acclaim. Recent large-scale exhibitions of his photographs have been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, London. Bey’s writings on his own and others’ work are included in Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply and Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities. He is a professor of art and Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago.
Famed for her Kitchen Table Series, among other works, Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) explores power, class, Black identity, womanhood, and the historical past and its resonance in the present moment. In addition to photography, Weems creates video, performance and works of public art, and organizes thematic gatherings which bring together creative thinkers across a broad array of disciplines. Her work has been exhibited across the world, at venues such as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and the American Academy in Rome.



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Carrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the PossibleCarrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible

Published by D.A.P./Fundación MAPFRE.
Preface by Iris Dressler, Elvira Dyangani Ose. Text by LaCharles Ward, Fred Moten. Chronology and glossary by Raul Muñoz.

One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre—always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists—has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter succinctly described Weems as “a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible.”

This volume, spanning four decades of work, is the most thorough survey yet published. It includes Weems’ earliest series, such as Family Pictures and Stories, for which she photographed her relatives and close friends; the legendary Kitchen Table Series, in which she posed in a domestic setting; and other critically acclaimed works and series such as Ain’t Jokin’, Colored People, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Not Manet’s Type, The Jefferson Suite, Monuments, Roaming, Museums, Constructing History (A Class Ponders the Future), Slow Fade to Black and the Obama Project, among many others. Contextualizing these pieces are essays by LaCharles Ward and Fred Moten and a chronology by Raul Muñoz. The book also includes a visual essay by Weems that presents a personal selection of her own works from the artist's perspective. The accompanying exhibition is organized by Fundación MAPFRE in collaboration with Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, where the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems. The Evidence Of Things Not Seen took place from April 2 through July 10, 2022.

Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Weems lives in Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York.



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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table SeriesCarrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

Published by MW Editions.
Foreword by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

This publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships—with lovers, children, friends—and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.
As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts “the battle around the family ... monogamy ... and between the sexes. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist’s words, “unrequited love.”



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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table SeriesCarrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

Published by Damiani/Matsumoto Editions.
Text by Sarah Lewis, Adrienne Edwards.

Kitchen Table Series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships—with lovers, children, friends—and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude. As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family ... monogamy ... and between the sexes." Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist’s words, "unrequited love."
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists. In a career spanning over 30 years, she has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems and the consequences of power. Weems’ complex body of art employs photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation and video. Weems has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" grant and the Prix de Roma. She is represented in public and private collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table SeriesCarrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

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Published by Damiani/Matsumoto Editions.
Text by Sarah Lewis, Adrienne Edwards.

The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman’s life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships--with lovers, children, friends--and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. Published in an edition of 25 signed and numbered copies, this book includes a silver gelatin print of “Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper),” 1990/1999 (10.9 x 14 inches).

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Carrie Mae Weems: Constructing HistoryCarrie Mae Weems: Constructing History

A Requiem to Mark the Moment

Published by Savannah College of Art and Design.
Foreword by Paula S. Wallace, Stephanie S. Hughley. Text by Laurie Ann Farrell, Deborah Willis.

Weems explores the human rights movement in the United States and abroad in this volume devoted to her multimedia installation "Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment."

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