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Sherrie Levine

Sherrie Levine Biography

Photographer

Sherrie Levine, born on April 17, 1947, is a renowned photographer known for her reinterpretation of classic artworks and deep exploration of the essence of photography.

Sherrie Levine, born on April 17, 1947, is a renowned photographer known for her reinterpretation of classic artworks and deep exploration of the essence of photography.

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“Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be.”

Author:Sherrie Levine

“The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.”

Knows Men World Art Space Painting Photography Stones Originals Filled Painter Variety Clash Mortgage Tokens Suffocating Lease

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“I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were times when both pictures disappear and other times when they were both manifest. That vibration is basically what the work was about for me - that space in the middle where there is no picture, rather an emptiness, an oblivion.”

Wanted Space Middle Disappear Emptiness Manifest Oblivion Vibrations

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“It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.”

Want Art Wanted Artist Work Relationship Style Masters Unconscious Literal

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“I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.”

Giving Trying Art Answers Doubt Authority Absolutes Doctrine Celebrate Ideology Uncertainty Interpretation Provoking Parasites Dogmatism Incorporating

Author:Sherrie Levine

“Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.”

Author:Sherrie Levine

About the Author

Born: April 17, 1947
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 6

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