Bodies of Evidence: documentary photography and the black subject in the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Romare Bearden

This dissertation considers the work of African American artists Carrie Mae Weems and Romare Bearden in relation to the difficulties inherent in representating the black subject in documentary photography. By taking images directly from institutional archives and media archives Weems and Bearden ai...

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Main Author: Cobby, Rebecca
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20681/