In the mid 90s Carrie Mae Weems (recent MAN interview) "was invited by The J. Paul Getty Museum to comb through their photography collection. She selected from nineteenth and twentieth century photographs of black men and women, from the time they were forced into slavery in the United States to the present, then rephotographed the pictures, enlarged them, and toned them in red. Each photograph is framed under a sheet of glass inscribed with a text written by the artist, evoking the layers of prejudice imposed on the depicted men and women. Weems's work offers a contemporary reading of this historical group of images." ( MoMA link) In this series of appropriated images she aims to 'heighten critical awareness' and give the subjects a dignity and humanity they were denied by their white American photographers. Unfortunately two of the images she has chosen to include are arguably mis- appropriated, one by Robert Frank (Swiss) and another by Garry Wino