He was living next door and became then my subject in these photographs for the Kitchen Table Series.” - Carrie Mae Weems “This is the man, Don Washington sitting to my left, who introduced me to Nina Simone many, many years ago and, miraculously, was my neighbor when I moved to this tiny little town in New England. He was living next door and became then my subject in these photographs for the Kitchen Table Series.” She displayed the image in her presentation and said: “This is the man, Don Washington sitting to my left, who introduced me to Nina Simone many, many years ago and, miraculously, was my neighbor when I moved to this tiny little town in New England. She was invited to speak on the occasion of the installation of “Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series” at the Washington, D.C., museum (Sept. Weems identified her counterpart in the photograph during a lecture at the National Gallery of Art last year (see video below). His name is Don Washington, her neighbor at the time. There is a bottle of liquor, half full, and a bowl of peanuts. The photograph that was auctioned today features Weems sitting at the kitchen table with a man who is smoking.
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