The Kitchen Table Series. Considered to be one of the artist s most important bodies of work carrie mae weems kitchen table series interweaves themes of race class gender friendship love loss power and motherhood. Welcome to the official website of artist carrie mae weems.
Other articles where the kitchen table series is discussed. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up kitchen table series tell a story of one woman s life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. These images often were accompanied by text and audio recordings.
The book features for the first time all 20 photographs and 14 text panels from kitchen table series one of the artist s earliest series and includes essay contributions by sarah lewis and adrienne edwards.
These images often were accompanied by text and audio recordings. Kitchen table series is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the american artist carrie mae weems. The kitchen one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women. Carrie mae weems s the kitchen table series 1990 is among the most significant photographic achievements in contemporary art in 20 photographs and 14 text panels weems features herself in carefully staged scenes around the same kitchen table revealing intimate moments of everyday life such as laughing with friends studying alongside her daughter or having a drink with her next.
