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Carrie Mae Weems in "Compassion"Preview

July 1, 2009

With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems’s vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history.

Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths.

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