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CARRIE MAE WEEMS (1953 - )
Tell me, I beseech you, when I casted my vote to you, did I cast it to the wind?.
Chromogenic print on Kodak Professional paper, 1996. 480x584 mm; 18
7
/
8
x23 inches. Edition of
75. Signed and numbered in ink, verso.
This photograph was made for the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Carrie Mae
Weems reproduces Gustave LeGray’s iconic early photograph,
Brig on theWater
, 1856, in this union
of old and new technologies.
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