“In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe” Sontag
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. it Means putting oneself into certain relation to the world...” Sontag
“In the final scenes (of the kitchen table series), alone, she locks eyes with the camera, she finds pleasure, and comfort, with herself.” Weems (palumbo)
“Weems’s black and white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience: how selfhood shifts through passage of time... ...the roles that women accumulate and oscillate between; how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world.” Palumbo on weems
“Cindy was one of the first to explore the idea of malleability or fluidity of identity.” Hoban on Cindy Sherman
“Artistic personae can not only be instantly created but also instantly animated and disseminated. Art via avatar.” Hoban on Sherman
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