Hardcover. 4to. Aperture, New York/Williams College Museum of Art

Hardcover. 4to. Aperture, New York/Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA. 2001. 108 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Publisher's acetate DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (rear DJ wrapper is damp stained along the rear board edge). Bound in illustrated paper coverd boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. EB; 12.2 X 9.3 X 0.7 inches; 108 pages.