Carrie Mae Marrie, Kitchen Table Series, 1990 |
Susan Sontag “On Photography”
“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
“Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”
This article showed how powerful a picture is and that in reality, it holds many captured memories. Every photograph has a story or something to learn from it.
Carrie Mae Weems “Kitchen Table Series”
“And from that table, a fictional life unfolds, with Weems playing the lead role.”
“Viewers may not be able to see the world outside of the kitchen’s walls, but her characters are trying to navigate it all the same.”
Carrie Mae
The Cindy Sherman Effect
“Here we were,
“A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of
Cindy Sherman had made a major effect in the art world, changing still life photographs. It influenced many young artists and inspired many women. Since women during Sherman’s time weren’t really part of the art world.
Arianna Perez, Kitchen Table, 2021 |
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