Carrie Mae Weems Retrospective Opens at the Guggenheim (Photos)
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.
© Carrie Mae Weems,Carrie Mae Weems
Afro-Chic, 2010
(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Untitled (Colored People Grid), 2009–10
(c) Carrie Mae Weems
A Broad and Expansive Sky—Ancient Rome (from Roaming), 2006
(c) Carrie Mae Weems
Listening for the Sounds of Revolution (from Dreaming in Cuba), 2002
(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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
Untitled (Box Spring in Tree) (from Sea Islands Series), 1991–92
(c) Carrie Mae Weems
Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Makeup) (from Kitchen Table Series), 1990
(c) Carrie Mae Weems; The Art Institute ofÃÂ Chicago
Untitled (Man and Mirror) (from Kitchen Table Series), 1990
(c) Carrie Mae Weems; The Art Institute of Chicago
Blue Black Boy (from Colored People), 1989–90
é Carrie Mae Weems
Family Reunion (from Family Pictures and Stories), 1978–84
(c) Carrie Mae Weems; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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