Franklin Sirmans Books
Carrie Mae Weems
"The work of contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) hits hard with a powerful mix of lived life and social commentary. Since the late 1970s, her photographs, films, and installations have b...
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Lorna Simpson
By Hilton Als, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Anna Deveare Smith, Connie Butler, Franklin Sirmans
One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward...
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