Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems
| Date | Mar 17, 2010 |
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| Type | Lecture |
Photographers Lecture Series 2010
Moderated by Phillip S. Block
Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial formsjokes, songs, rebukesin photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and expose pernicious stereotypes, using traditional narrative forms: social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. She has been awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman grant; the Skowhegan Medal for Photography; the Rome Prize Fellowship; the Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography, and more. Her work has appeared in major exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.