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Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project brings together photographs from Frances B. Johnston's Hampton Album of 1900 with a related series of images by renowned contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. Johnston's Album is a portrayal of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute founded in 1868 in Virginia for "selected Negro youths" & displaced Native-Americans. This new series of photographic banners are shaped in direct response to Johnston's images & life at Hampton University today. An exhibition that opened in March 2000 at Williams College Museum of Art will travel to several university museums.Weems, Carrie Mae is the author of 'Carrie Mae Weems The Hampton Project', published 2001 under ISBN 9780893819132 and ISBN 0893819131.
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