Carrie Mae Weems

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What Is a Feminist Picture?

An exhibition at MoMA shows how women photographers have always demanded a seat at the table.

Carrie Mae Weems Confronts the Fraught History of American Photography

In an iconic early series, the artist deconstructs the ethnographic gaze that has long trailed Black subjects.

What Makes a Family?

An exhibition explores how black photographers portray their communities and kin.

These Radical Black Women Changed the Art World

Behind the scenes of the Brooklyn Museum’s landmark exhibition about revolutionary feminist artists.

5 Exhibitions to See in February

From protest images to the poetics of architecture, here are this winter’s must-see photography exhibitions in New York.

The Radical Power of the Black Feminine Gaze

Carrie Mae Weems’s feminist vision has never been more timely.

Vision & Justice: Around the Kitchen Table

Five voices from the fields of theater, photography, and art history to reflect on one of Carrie Mae Weems’s most iconic projects.

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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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