This book accompanies the 1992 exhibition organized by the Walter / McBean Gallery if the San Francisco Art Institute.
“Encountering Carrie Mae Weems, we were taken by the immediacy of her work, and the passion exuded in every piece. In the body of her work one witnesses tremendous rage, presented in a direct and unconvoluted manner. With an unsettling reserve, Weems comments on the explosive isms of class, race and sex. In this regard she is neither ambiguous nor conventional, but tackles these issues with images and text that act as a series of Molotov cocktails waiting for a single match.” - D-L Alavarez, Peter Edlund and Yolanda Lopez, 1992 Adaline Kent Award Committee of the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee. All photographs are by Carrie Mae Weems and are reproductions from her work And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, 1991, fifteen polaroid color prints with texts printed on matting , each 24 by 24 inches, with fifteen red and white banners, some imprinted with text.