Name: CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Title: Some Said You Were the Spitting Image of Evil
Date: 1995
Dimensions: 17 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.
Current location: The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
Form: Monochromatic C print with sandblasted text on framing glass
Content: tinted blood red photograph of a black woman. There is also a white colored text saying“some said you were the spitting Image of Evil” this photograph is denouncing racism.
Process: She enlarged daguerreotypes of African-American subjects, colored them red, and overlaid them with text.
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