24+ Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Series Images. Carrie mae weems knew she was achieving something new with the kitchen table series, but she couldn't have anticipated the power it would have three decades on. Decades ago in northampton, massachusetts, carrie mae weems began devoting a part of every single day to photographing herself at her kitchen table.
Filmed in her syracuse studio, artist carrie mae weems discusses the impetus for her work the kitchen table series (1990), a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of the battle around the family between women and men, friends and lovers.
Damiani, 2016, cover, detail and p. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. And her kitchen table series has been equally enduring, making its way into plenty of books and museums over the years. Weems confronts identity, family, and the myth of home in this iconic series of photographs.
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