"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"The Assassination of Medgar, Malcolm, and Martin" (2008)
"The Assassination of Medgar, Malcolm, and Martin," 2008
Archival pigment print, 61 x 51 inches
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Archival pigment print, 61 x 51 inches
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"I’ve gone back and I’ve revisited those assassinations, the civil rights movement. I have looked at it in any number of ways through any number of pieces. And for me this piece, while certainly not perfect, is a very interesting place to pause. It’s beautifully articulated—both the video and the twenty photographs that accompany it."
-Carrie Mae Weems
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