Carrie Mae Weems The Kitchen Table Series. Based on your understanding of this photograph by. Carrie mae weems, untitled (woman feeding bird), the kitchen table series, 1990, gelatin silver print (printed 2015), 27.94 x 27.94 cm @ carrie mae the speakers comment that the caged bird is a powerful metaphor that carries many meanings.
Made only a few years after carrie mae weems received her mfa in 1984 from the university of california, san diego, kitchen table series consists of 20 staged photographs depicting weems and others seated at a table.
I wasn't interested in the act of performing before i made this series, i just. Carrie mae weems (born april 20, 1953) is considered one of the most important contemporary artists working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her work in she achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project the kitchen table series. The second photograph in the sequence depicts the protagonist drinking and playing cards with a man. Kitchen table series ($50, damiani/matsumoto editions), on sale now, puts on the printed page her meditation on domesticity and different relationships — with romantic partners, friends, and oneself — and the ways in which black women are portrayed.
