Kitchen table series

Published by Damiani/Matsumoto Editions, 2016. 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... ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Catalog SPRING 2016 Photography Monographs. Distributor Availability: . ISBN: 9788862084628

In Untitled (Kitchen Table Series) Carrie Mae Weems staged and photographed a fictional drama, playing the lead role herself. In the context of a simple setting that remains constant—the artist’s own

Photographed in 1989 and '90, Carrie Mae Weems' seminal Kitchen Table Series is still as relevant as ever – and getting its first stand-alone book release.

This spring, the High Museum of Art will present a thematic exhibition featuring contemporary artworks from the early 1990s through the present that examine the different ways love is understood, expressed or left unspoken.

Kitchen Series⁠ by Carrie Mae Weems, 1990 | Inspiration | Women in Mind

Fifty years ago, the photographer Gordon Parks took to the streets of Harlem with his camera — and at times, Ralph Ellison — and changed the game for black photographers. In capturing the scene on the ground, and the likes of Malcolm X, he left a legacy that paved the way for Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and LaToya Ruby Frazier today, who've all come together to show their photographs alongside his in "Fifty Years After," an homage to both Parks and the Civil Rights Movement at James…

The kitchen; the one space in a house that witnesses the emotional spectrum of a relationship – a range of intimate engagements and exasperating encounters. In 1990, American photographer, Ca…

Weems examines a great variety of topics: family dynamics, misogyny, class, and politics, building an image for herself as an artist who does not shy away from difficult subjects.

Katherine McKittrick is a professor of gender studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006) and…