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Sarah Charlesworth (March 29, 1947 - June 25, 2013) was an American artist renowned for her photographic works. Her art often focuses on social and political issues, capturing details of everyday life to explore themes of power, identity, and visual culture.

Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective

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“Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.”

Used Objects Particular Significance Loaded

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“To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.”

World Looks Real Hands Reality Seems Language Powerful Economy Strange Communication Photograph Substitutes Something Real

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“I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.”

Culture Language Photography Dominant

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“I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.”

Thinking Problem Culture Roles Photography Photographer Mediums Engaged Engagement

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“I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.”

Thinking My Own Particular Unconscious Describing Symbolism Rearranging Deploying

Author:Sarah Charlesworth

About the Author

Born: March 29, 1947
Died: June 25, 2013
Known for: Artist
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