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Sea Islands / Carrie Mae Weems.
Fine Arts Library TR655 .W44 2024 1 photographic print
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- photographer.
- Series:
- One picture book two ; no. 40.
- One picture book two ; no. 40
- Standardized Title:
- Photographs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sea Islands--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Sea Islands.
- African Americans--Sea Islands--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-.
- Weems, Carrie Mae.
- Photography, Artistic.
- art photography.
- Genre:
- photobooks.
- photographic prints.
- artists' books (books)
- photographs.
- Artists' books.
- Photobooks.
- Photographs.
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages : all illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 photographic print (13 x 18 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paso Robles, Calif.] : Nazraeli Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Selections from Carrie Mae Weems's Sea Islands series, "which chronicles and celebrates a group of African American communities in the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia.The members of these communities, descended from West African people of the Gola tribe who were brought to the United States as slaves beginning in the seventeenth century, developed a culture and language known as Gullah, traces of which still persist. Weems' untitled image affirms the enduring links between Gullah and traditional belief systems, specifically folklore concerning spirituality in nature. In the image, the artist portrays a bedspring wedged into the fork of a tree--an arrangement, she explains, that is meant to ensnare evil spirits. But in its careful composition--the play of the horizontal bedspring against the vertical tree trunk, the bounding at top and bottom by tree leaves and vegetation--the photograph also sustains a delicate, mournful beauty that transcends time and place. In addition to straightforward depictions of sites such as this one, the Sea Island Series includes staged photographs, rephotographed ethnographic images, and ceramic plates bearing texts that all begin, 'Went looking for Africa.' Indeed, working on the series inspired Weems to visit Africa for the first time, where she embarked on a new body of work"--Whitney Museum of American Art website.
- Notes:
- Edition of 500 numbered copies.
- "A book of 16 reproductions and one original print by Carrie Mae Weems"--Colophon.
- Original signed photographic print laid in.
- ISBN:
- 9781590055748
- 1590055748
- OCLC:
- 1452690708
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