Week 1 Assignment (Dattnan)

 Susan Sontag Response

"Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads -- as an anthology of images."

I had truly enjoy this phrase from Susan Sontag. Without this illustration of a images that was taken by a photographer, we will not allowed to cherish and remember those memories in our heads, but now with a image we can. A photo can age, but will always be in the present. Which bring me to explained the other quote I had also enjoyed thoroughly by Susan Sontag. 

"What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. " 

I had chose the following because we might change the perspective of the image depending on how we feel. I know when some of us look back into a picture of us, it bring up a memory, a little spark, and even an emotion on how much you change when that image was capture and who you are in the present. 

Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems's Landmark "Kitchen Table" Series

"Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience..."

Black and white images helped me capture the texture, define what is going on in the image, without the colors filling the gap into the 'story' behind the image. This is how I thought about this phrase when I was reading it. 

"...a story of the lovers told in vivid vignettes, from their meeting in the “glistening, twinkling crystal light of August/September sky,” through all the tests and balancing acts and storms of their relationship, until the woman finds solace in solitude."

The meaning of Carrie Mae Weems collection to the The Kitchen Table Series was meaningful. It's show that not all relationship can be all bright and perfect, it can be black and white as she added that into it with her filter and show her loneliness little by little after the men disappear from her picture, the childrens and the other women, until she was lonely. 

The Intimate Series by Dattnan Martinez
(Inspired by The Kitchen Series of Carrie Mae Weems)