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10 quotes by Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems Born (1953-04-20) April 20, 1953 (age 61) Portland, Oregon, USA Nationality American Education California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. University of California, San Diego Known for Photography Awards MacArthur Fellowship (2013), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007), Skowhegan Medal for Photography (2007), Rome Prize Fellowship (2006), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography (2002) Carrie Mae Weems (born April...
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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 was my life, and I viewed the camera as... →

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The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more... →

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It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making... →

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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.

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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 I love it.... →

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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... →

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I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you... →

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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.

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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 by... →

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My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was... →

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