Not Manet's Type

Each of the prints in photographer Carrie Mae Weems' five-part series Not Manet's Type is comprised of a nude self-portrait with a brief inscription below. Here the text reads, "It was clear, I was not Manet's type. Picasso-who had a way with women-only used me and Duchamp never even considered me." Each of these sardonic statements may be read as both a feminist response to the way male artists have used women's bodies and a commentary on the role of black women in particular in the history of modern art.