She has a background inįolklore and photography, so she is always combining those two. Weems is telling a story with her photographs. That she met on the street, people that she posed, that she staged. She was making this series, she worked every day on it, and she brought in peopleįrom the neighborhood, her friends, and even people Kitchen table series is 20 prints and 14 text panels. Series of texts that were made soon after the photography They can be seen together, and they can be seen with a That these photographs stand on their own, but So we're seeing one print here, but it's part of a series, and the artist was clear Of emotion can take place around a kitchen table. And where you can have these individual experiences. Intimate experiences, all of your vulnerabilities, all of your triumphs and failures. And in that way, the kitchen table is such a metaphor for all of life's most It's where important conversations often happen in famiies. It's where foodĪnd nourishment comes from. The kitchen is such a center of gravity in the home. In 1989 and finished in 1990 that looks at a woman, and is centered around the kitchen table. Part of Carrie Mae Weems' iconic Kitchen Table Series, a series that she started The photograph is known as Untitled, but parenthetically, (Woman Feeding Bird). (piano music) - We're at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, looking at a photographic
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