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The Kitchen Table Series

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In Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series
Her seminal work, The Kitchen Table Series (1990), a narrative cycle of staged photographs, depicts seemingly mundane episodes from a woman’s life within the space of her kitchen.
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