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***Brand New Book***
Carrie Mae Weems:
The Hampton Project
Weems produces art that addresses formal and political issues encircling African-American
culture and focuses on the ways in which images shape our perception of color,
gender and class. She explores existing genres of photography, particularly
documentary imagery, and manipulates these conventions with complexity and
wit. Whether focusing on personal or cultural history, on Africa or on traces
of the Diaspora, Weems' interest in the narratives implied in photographs
presses further through the use of cluster and sequence. Using narrative as
a counterpoint to imagery, she recounts stories and myths and invents texts.
Provocatively, she moves marginalized voices smack into the middle of contemporary
discourse. Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton
Project
March 4 - September 10, 2000
On March 4,
2000, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will debut an exhibition
entitled "Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project," featuring a
commissioned installation by internationally-acclaimed visual artist and
contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Weems, along with a selection of photographs
from Frances Benjamin Johnston's stunning Hampton Album of 1900.
On view will be the work of two women distanced by time and race, yet joined
by their discipline and shared focus on the history and legacy of the Hampton
Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University), founded by a
Williams alumnus in 1868 as an institution devoted to the education of African-Americans
and later Native-Americans. The show will be on view March 4 through September
10, 2000.
Since the late 1970s, Ms. Weems has produced art that addresses
the formal and political issues impacting African-American culture and focuses
upon the persuasive power of the visual image to identify and define perceptions
of race, gender, and class. Her newest commission is a direct response to
late 19th-century images of Hampton and to life at Hampton University today.
Ms. Weems has exhibited internationally in solo and group
shows, and has taught at major universities throughout the United States.
This spring she is the Sterling A. Brown ('22) Visiting Professor in the
Art Department at Williams College. The historical portion of The Hampton Project features
images by Frances Benjamin Johnston (18641952), a well-established
photographer commissioned in 1899 to document the Hampton Institute for
the Contemporary American Negro Life exhibition at the Universal Exposition
in Paris in 1900. Johnston's pictures illustrated the progress Hampton had
made since its inception, pursuing its mandate to assist the children of
slaves and, after 1878, dispossessed Indians, to become proud and useful
citizens. According to Vivian Patterson, WCMA Associate Curator and Project
Manager for the show, "The images are among the finest of Johnston's
career and provide an historical perspective from which audiences may gain
further insight to the Weems installation, as well as provide a vantage
point on the 100 years of difference between the two women's commissions.
This section of the exhibition is highlighted by six vintage platinum prints
borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art in New York-images from the famous
Hampton Album containing 159 photographs and discovered by art critic
and connoisseur Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington D.C. bookshop during World
War II. The balance of the pictures on display are beautiful modern platinum
prints produced from vintage originals by Chicago Albumen Works in Housastonic,
Mass., with the permission of the Hampton University Museum."
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| | Publisher's Note | One Hundred Years of Difference brings together photographs from Frances B. Johnston's stunning Hampton Album of 1900 with a related series of new images by renowned contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems.
Johnston's portrayal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, founded in 1868 in Virginia for the education of "selected Negro youths" and displaced Native Americans, is a thought-provoking historical album. Weems, known for her savvy and ironic view of race struggle in America, illustrates the "one hundred years of difference" with a new series of photographic banners, shaped in direct response to Johnston's images and to life at Hampton University today. 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.
One Hundred Years of Difference includes an interview with Weems, as well as essays by Deborah Willis (curator for the Center for African-American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution) and Jeanne Zeidler (director of the Museum of Art at Hampton University), among others. An accompanying exhibition opened at the Williams College Museum of Art in March 2000 and will travel to venues throughout the United States.
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