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Image Analysis of Carrie Mae Weems’ “Roaming”

Image Analysis of Carrie Mae Weems’ “Roaming”

Q In a career spanning two decades, photographer Carrie Mae Weems has garnered impressive art world success. Her works—more than a dozen major series and hundreds of individual pieces—explore issues of racism, sexism, and oppression, and blend the boundaries of history, anthropology, and beauty. Choose one photograph from the website and do image analysis on it. Make sure to sure MLA Format. Approx. 500 words.

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What Carrie Mae Weems portrays in her image series “Roaming” (Weems) is the freedom of women, especially black women in the world. Carrie Mae Weems is considered to be one of the most influential contemporary American artists. Through her remarkable art she explores sexism, cultural identity, family relationships, class and power structures, its consequences etc. she has been rewarded with several prestigious honours, awards, grants and fellowships. Overall,