Carrie Mae Weems

It's true.

Carrie Mae Weems.

Yes.

Very early on I found her work and of course the self-portraiture.

Right.

Um, yeah, you might know about Dorothea Lange, and Cartier-Bresson, and, um, Annie Leibovitz, and Carrie Mae Weems, and Dana Bay, but do you know enough about the history of Emmett Till to write about this?

Yeah.

You know? That's, that's what I mean about the training piece, so-

And perhaps it has been important in different ways.

Perhaps Gordon Parks takes ethical pictures of people, or Carrie Mae Weems, or Malik Sidibe.

not perhaps accidentally, specifically photographers of color, I mean, black photographers in particular, who I think may be able to capture it may be able to have a positionality with respect to certainly bodies of color in the ways in which bodies of color have been radically exploited through photography and through image making in our culture.

But it's not just, of course, it's also in, I think, the ways in which women have been exploited by those end up by, by that for those forms of objectification and the sexualization of, of people were gotten, perhaps there's a place for sexualization and for in, in, in such imagery, but, um, It doesn't serve my purpose ethically, and it doesn't serve my purpose aesthetically or compositionally.

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Only artist Carrie Mae Weems can tell you about... why and how she eats popcorn every single Saturday morning.

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