Selfie with Cindy Sherman

Susan Sontag: On Photography

 

“The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture”

 

“While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly lective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency.” 

 

Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems Landmark “Kitchen Table Series” by Jacque Palumbo for artsy

 

“Everyone can relate to this work”

 

“It’s not just black women; it’s white women, Asian women. Men can see the women in their lives- memories from their childhood or scenes from their marriage or their family life. It’s so universal and yet representation like this is so rare”

 

The Cindy Sherman Effect by Phoebe Hoban for ArtNews

 

“ Shermans coup was to cast her self as subject matter, making each of her staged characters the star of an implicit narrative, from the lush color centerfolds that followed the “film stills” in 1982, to the strangely sexualized “broken dolls” of the ‘90”

 

“ there is a whole new crop of artists whose sensibility has been shaped by the Internet and social media, major influences that didn’t even exist when Sherman first began her photographic odyssey”