'We want to love on each other, and we want to build each other up, and we want to let each other know what you said just now: We see each other, and we see each other in each other.' Happy birthday, MaryJBlige!
had their work cut out for them. Weems, who is now 64, first picked up a camera at the age of 18 and over the decades has recast the ways in which black women have been portrayed in images. Early on she realized that she couldn’t count on others to make the pictures she wanted to see. In her seminal work, she ruminates on race, class, and gender in an unfolding domestic story in which she appears as the protagonist.
In Mary J. Blige, the queen of hip-hop soul, best known for her raw, openly autobiographical songs of empowerment, Weems found a towering ally. Like Weems, the Bronx-born Blige, 46, is a storyteller, and also began her career at 18, when she became the youngest female recording artist to sign with Uptown Records. Her, went multiplatinum, as did many of the hits that followed; so far she’s won nine Grammys.
Mary J. Blige wears an Alberta Ferretti cape; Joseph coat; Djula earrings; vintage crown from Early Halloween, New York.Both Weems and Blige command the spaces they occupy: Weems with her camera and incantatory style of speech, Blige with her presence and voice.
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