Week 1

 

The Start of a Day

Susan Sonntag

"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power."

I like this quote because every picture has a story to tell and its full of information, we don't know about until we fully look into details of the picture.

"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."

Photographs are a way to represent history. If we didn't have pictures we wouldn't be able to fully visualize stories. Every picture truly has its own meaning.

Carrie Mae

"'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.’

Everyone can relate to this work no matter where it's from, even if you can't relate it to your current life you can from your past. Even I can relate to this work

"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." 

I've never thought of photographs this way but it's true. When you're looking at a picture its mirroring an experience from the past so that you can put yourself in their shoes and feel it.