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Carrie Mae Weems Retrospective Opens at the Guggenheim (Photos)

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A new retrospective at the Guggenheim looks back at over 30 years of the photographer's work exploring—and challenging—race, class, and gender issues.

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© Carrie Mae Weems,Carrie Mae Weems
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Afro-Chic, 2010

(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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Untitled (Colored People Grid), 2009–10

(c) Carrie Mae Weems
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A Broad and Expansive Sky—Ancient Rome (from Roaming), 2006

(c) Carrie Mae Weems
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Listening for the Sounds of Revolution (from Dreaming in Cuba), 2002

(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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An Anthropological Debate (from From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried), 1995–96

(c) President & Fellows of Harvard College, 1977; (c) MoMA, 2012
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Untitled (Box Spring in Tree) (from Sea Islands Series), 1991–92

(c) Carrie Mae Weems
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Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Makeup) (from Kitchen Table Series), 1990


(c) Carrie Mae Weems; The Art Institute of Chicago
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Untitled (Man and Mirror) (from Kitchen Table Series), 1990

(c) Carrie Mae Weems; The Art Institute of Chicago
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Blue Black Boy (from Colored People), 1989–90

© Carrie Mae Weems
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Family Reunion (from Family Pictures and Stories), 1978–84

(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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