  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  In this three-part work, Carrie Mae Weems&acirc;&#128;&#153;s stark photographs of a holding facility on Gor&Atilde;&copy;e Island, Senegal, flank a middle panel that includes poetic and chilling phrases that reflect the experience of Africans brought to this site during the 1600s and 1700s. Africans captured in the interior of the continent passed through these halls on their way to enslavement in the United States and the Caribbean. The doorway in the photograph at right was known as the &acirc;&#128;&#156;door of no return.&acirc;&#128;&#157; These works are part of Weems&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Slave Coast Series, in which the artist has reinterpreted and reflected upon historical sites in West Africa from the period of transatlantic slave trade.
  
  
  Title
  Grabbing, Snatching, Blink and You Be Gone
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1993
  
  Artist
  Carrie Mae Weems
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  born 1953
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Gelatin silver prints and silkscreen on panel
  
  
  Dimensions
  Installed: 20 15/16 inches &Atilde;&#151; 63 inches &Atilde;&#151; 1 5/8 inches (53.2 &Atilde;&#151; 160 &Atilde;&#151; 4.1 cm)
  Framed: 20 15/16 &Atilde;&#151; 20 7/8 &Atilde;&#151; 1 1/2 inches (53.2 &Atilde;&#151; 53 &Atilde;&#151; 3.8 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Photographs
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1999.73
  
  
  Copyright
  Non-commercial all standard museum
  
  
  
