- "Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood."
I thoroughly enjoy this quote from Sontag. Without photographs, there is a lot the public eye would not know about. There's always a story behind each and every photograph and a deeper meaning as well.
- "Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are."
Inspiration for paintings are, for the most part, photograph based. The feeling of seeing a photograph and wanting to paint or draw it and add your spin on it is an unmatched feeling.
Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems’s Landmark “Kitchen Table Series
- "Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience: how selfhood shifts through passage of time; the sudden distance between people, both passable and impassable; the roles that women accumulate and oscillate between; how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world."
That is what makes the series that more enjoyable. Ever since I first saw it, the simplicity astonished me. When you think of your kitchen, you most likely think of food -- but Weems crafted memories that she'd never forget.
- “Everyone can relate to this work,” Sann said. “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 inclusivity in all of her images and thought processes is brilliant. I can agree with what Sann is saying and how everyone has their own separate interpretation of Weems' work.
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| "If the phone doesn't ring, it's me" Recreation of Untitled (Woman and phone) |
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