The first book dedicated solely to one of Carrie Mae Weems’ most significant and important bodies of work, her Kitchen Table Series (1989-90). Photographed in black and white, twenty photographs tell the story of one woman’s life as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen – a space of domesticity and the patriarchal domain of women. Although technically a self-portrait series, it is not of the artist herself, but her as an archetype of the ways Black women have been portrayed in society.