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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Aperture, 2001. Hardcover in tanslucent dust jacket. First Editon, First Printing (with the full numberline ending in 1). 12 x 9 inches. 96 pages with numerous photographic images throughout. Includes essays by Frederick Rudolph, Deborah Willis-Kennedy and interviews by Denise Ramzy and Katherine Fogg. SIGNED by Carrie Mae Weems on the half-title page. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket. The Hampton Project brings together photographs from Frances B. Johnston's stunning Hampton Album of 1900 with a related series of images by renowned contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. This remarkable book examines the work of two women, distanced by time and race, yet joined by their shared interest in a unique educational experience. For twenty years, Carrie Mae Weems has made powerful artwork--often with a fiercely ironic sensibility- from complex social observations. In The Hampton Project, she knits her concerns about individual identity, class, assimilation, education, and the legacy of slavery into a series of photographic banners that force viewers to reassess their own moral and ethical boundaries, as well as the political and socioeconomic realities of twentieth-century America. Signed.…