Carrie Mae Weems

Photographers Lecture Series 2010

Moderated by Phillip S. Block

Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial forms—jokes, songs, rebukes—in 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.