Description: Carrie Mae Wheems: The Hampton Project By Vivian Patterson Publisher: Aperture; First Edition (February 15, 2001) Language: English Hardcover: 95 pages ISBN-10: 0893819131 ISBN-13: 978-0893819132 Item Weight: 2.23 pounds Dimensions: 9.25 x 0.75 x 12.25 inches Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project brings together photographs from Frances B. Johnston's stunning Hampton Album of 1900 with a related series of images by renowned contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. This remarkable book examines the work of two women, distanced by time and race, yet joined by their shared interest in a unique educational experience. For twenty years, Carrie Mae Weems has made powerful artwork--often with a fiercely ironic sensibility—from complex social observations. In The Hampton Project, she knits her concerns about individual identity, class, assimilation, education, and the legacy of slavery into a series of photographic banners that force viewers to reassess their own moral and ethical boundaries, as well as the political and socioeconomic realities of twentieth-century America. Weems's Hampton Project is shaped in part as a response to vintage photographs of the historically black Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia, and period images of African Americans and Native Americans, as well as to Frances Benjamin Johnston's celebrated Hampton Album of 1900. Her gaze is broad enough to encompass initial contacts between Anglos, African Americans, and Native Americans, the institution of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, the civil rights conflicts of the twentieth century, and the land claim disputes of the present. Weems's ultimate focus, however, is her response to the philosophy of Hamptons's founder, and to historic and contemporary intersections of race, education, and the democratic ideal. Since 1980, Carrie Mae Weems's photographs and installations have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad in nearly fifty one-person shows and numerous group exhibitions.
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Book Title: Carrie Mae Wheems: The Hampton Project
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Aperture; First Edition (February 15, 2001)
Item Length: 12 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 2000s
Item Height: 0.5 in
Author: Vivian Patterson
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Art & Culture
Topic: African American art & Artists
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 2.23 lb
Item Width: 9.5 in
Number of Pages: 95 pages
