Carrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible

The most comprehensive survey of Weems- genre-defying oeuvre yet published

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 othe