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Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.

Needs, Relationship, Three, Video, Words
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

Art, Art Is, Solace, Turn

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]. . . This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Black, Clouds, Complex, Folks, Invisibility, Photographs

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 for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

Art, Beautiful, Make, Powerful, Sick, Specifics

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 closely.

Ability, Camera, Cameras, Freedom, Looks, People

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Done, Feelings, People, Work
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