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Carrie Mae Weems : "a great turn in the possible" / Carrie Mae Weems.

Madrid, Spain : Fundación MAPFRE ; New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers Inc., [2022]

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- -- Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

African American women photographers -- Exhibitions.

African American women in art -- Exhibitions.

African Americans in art -- Exhibitions.

Video art -- Exhibitions.

9788498448160 (cloth : hardback) :

8498448166 (cloth : hardback)

283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

First English-language edition.

"A great turn in the possible": a background to Carrie Mae Weems's oeuvre / Elvira Dyangani Ose -- The evidence of things not seen / Iris Dressler -- tables and gems / Fred Moten -- Refusing anti-blackness: Carrie Mae Weems and the visual poetics of imagination / LaCharles Ward -- Carrie Mae Weems by associations / Raúl Muñoz de la Vega -- Works.

"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 August 21, 2022"--

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