Carrie Mae Weems: "The Kitchen Table Series"
Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist who was known for creating works to reveal contemporary African-American life and her own experience as a woman. For gender and family issues, Kitchen Table Series, which was created in 1990, is one of Weems’s most famous photographic works. In the series, Weems made herself became both the photographer and the performer, and all of the images were centered in the same domestic scene – kitchen table. Looks like an everyday snapshot, Weems shows the different traditional roles she played in her life and the intimate relationships that she has with other people: men and women, mother and children, and women and their girlfriends. In The Kitchen Table Series, Weems shows her strong ability of storytelling. Every photo is one complete episode; together they become a consistent storyline. If you look at these images in a specific sequence, you would feel like you are reading a fluent and interesting visual novel. Viewers could easily understand what happened in the photos by watching character’s body language, gestures, and facial expressions. They also have their own interpretations and resonates because of variety
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From emancipation leading all the way to the 20th century, African American women struggled to find better opportunities outside of their agricultural laborer and domestic servant roles. In Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, author Rebecca Sharpless illustrates how African American women in the American South used domestic work, such as cooking, as a stepping stone from their old lives to the start of their new ones. Throughout the text, Sharpless is set out to focus on the way African American women used cooking to bridge slavery and them finding their own employment, explore how these women could function in a world of low wages, demanding work, and omnipresent racial strife, and refute stereotypes about these cooks. With the use of cookbooks, interviews, autobiographies, and letters from the women, Sharpless guides readers to examine the personal lives and cooking profession of these African American women and their ambition to support themselves and their families.
Carrie Mae Weems is an African American artist, who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, but mostly known for her “Kitchen Table” photography series. Her art is focused around the serious issues African American have to face in the United States every day.
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