Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
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I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics…
Art
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
All
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It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing…
Anybody
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I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
Body
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing…
Add
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The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very…
Ability
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I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me
Didnt
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
Directing
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How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
Crafts
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I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was…
All
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I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much…
Dominated
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In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and…
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