Read: (a) Robin Kelsey, Katori Hall, Salamishah Tillet, Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, “Around the Kitchen Table” (Collectively-authored re-assessment of The Kitchen Table Series” (Aperture, 2016))
(b) Deborah Willis, “In Conversation with Carrie Mae Weems” (pp. 395-405, To Make Their Own Way in the World, ed. Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis)
View:
The Kitchen Table Series on Weems’s artist’s website
(This digital presentation of the work allows you to see installation shots. Be sure to click through all of the images using arrows.)
The Kitchen Table Series on the National Gallery of Art’s website
(This digital presentation of the work allows you to see each photograph in the series as an individual image as well as the text that accompanied the work in its original presentation.)
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried on Weems’s artist’s website
The Louisiana Project on Weems’s artist’s website
The Hampton Project on Weems’s artist’s website
See also other misc. projects on the artist’s website (esp. Ain’t Jokin’, All the Boys, Slow Fade to Black, Museums, Sea Islands…)
Research: Visual cultures of the antebellum South OR their remaking/reworking by one of these well-known contemporary artists: Dawoud Bey, Sally Mann, or Kara Walker