Carrie Mae Weems
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Carrie Mae Weems

Editor: Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, with Christine Garnier

Contributors: Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Huey Copeland, Erina Duganne, Kimberly Drew, Coco Fusco, Thelma Golden, Katori Hall, bell hooks, Robin Kelsey, Thomas J. Lax, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Jeremy McCarter, Yxta Maya Murray, José Rivera, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Salamishah Tillet, Deborah Willis

In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography and contemporary art.

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Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art

Author: Heather Diack

Why do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography’s potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists creatively undermined them. Studying the unique relationship between photography and conceptual art practices in the United States during the social and political instability of the late 1960s, Heather Diack offers vital new perspectives on our “post-truth” world and the importance of suspending easy conclusions in contemporary art.

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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
Stephanie Burchett Stephanie Burchett

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Editors: Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh

From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this volume examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States.

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