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Master Print Editions

Many of today's best artists appreciate what we do at Light Work to help emerging photographers. Modern masters, including Carrie Mae Weems, Suzanne Opton, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Hank Willis Thomas, among others, have donated these limited edition prints for the continued support of our programming. Each image is matted and ready for framing or archival storage.

This year's Master Print Edition category features a highly collectible silver gelatin print by William Wegman. This print edition is offered exclusively from Light Work at the exceptional price of $1,000 or as part of the Benefactor Offer for $1,500. Only 100 signed and numbered prints are available. The image area measures 14 x 12" and is shipped in a 20 x 16" mat ready for framing or archival storage.

All prints include a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet with full subscription benefits.

William Wegman

Carrie Mae Weems - Kitchen Table Series

$1,000.00
Untitled, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990/2010
Silver gelatin print, 9 7/8 x 9 3/4" image on a 14 x 11" sheet
Signed and numbered print in a limited edition of 100

The seminal Kitchen Table Series by Carrie Mae Weems is widely recognized as a masterpiece of performance and story-telling within the photographic image. In this series, Weems uses a subtle vocabulary of props, gesture, and gaze to frame complex questions about identity, gender construction, representation, parenthood, and the nature of human relationships. Weems describes her intention of Kitchen Table Series as a personal view on the world around her, "I endeavored to intertwine themes as I have found them in - racial, sexual, and cultural identity and history - and presented them with overtones of humor and sadness, loss and redemption." The nonlinear narrative and issues presented in Weems' Kitchen Table Series remain as topical and thought-provoking today as when the images were first created in the early 1990s. Rendered in exquisite black-and-white, this silver gelatin print is hand-printed by Griffin Editions in New York City.

Elijah Gowin - Cup

$450.00

Cup, 2002
Pigmented inkjet print, 12 x 12"
Numbered edition of 25

The images Cup and Maggie and Orbs are part of Gowin's series Hymnal of Dreams (1994-2004), in which his beloved aunt Margaret Cooper is featured prominently in dreamlike and whimsically constructed scenes. The images are included in the book Maggie, which is part of Light Work's 2010 Book Collectors Offer. Gowin uses photography to speak about ritual, landscape, and memory. His photographs are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Center for Creative Photography, among others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 1998. In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Includes five issues of Contact Sheet.

Elijah Gowin - Maggie and Orbs

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Maggie and Orbs, 2001
Pigmented inkjet print, 12 x 15"
Numbered edition of 25

The images Cup and Maggie and Orbs are part of Gowin's series Hymnal of Dreams (1994-2004), in which his beloved aunt Margaret Cooper is featured prominently in dreamlike and whimsically constructed scenes. The images are included in the book Maggie, which is part of Light Work's 2010 Book Collectors Offer. Gowin uses photography to speak about ritual, landscape, and memory. His photographs are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Center for Creative Photography, among others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 1998. In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Includes five issues of Contact Sheet.

Limited Edition Offer: The Eatonville Portfolio

$1,200.00

The Eatonville Portfolio
Four original, signed prints in a portfolio box

This strikingly beautiful, one-of-a-kind boxed set includes all four prints from the Eatonville Series with signed photographs by Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis. All four prints are matted and ready for framing or archival storage.

The limited edition was created expressly for Light Work, following a photographic survey of Eatonville, FL, home of celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston. The images capture a unique view of the oldest black incorporated town in the United States.

At $1,200 this set of prints by four renowned artists represents an unmatched value. The generosity of each artist makes it possible for us to offer this portfolio at an exceptionally low price. The special offer includes a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet, Light Work's award-winning publication, and a back issue of Contact Sheet 124, that is dedicated to the Embracing Eatonville exhibition. Limited to two portfolios per customer.

The images included in the portfolio are as follows:

Carrie Mae Weems
Untitled, from the Eatonville Series, 2003
Pigmented inkjet print with text, 11 x 11"

Dawoud Bey
Jason, 2003
Pigmented inkjet print with text, 11 x 11"

Deborah Willis
View from the Pulpit, Eatonville, FL, 2003
Pigmented inkjet print, 11 x 14"

Lonnie Graham
Thompson Avenue, Eatonville, FL, June 2003
Pigmented inkjet print, 9 x 14"