quote 1- "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."
reaction- I like this quote because when we take pictures, we go back to those pictures and appreciate the moment, the place, and even the people around us. A photograph can hold a lot of power and emotions, sometimes we look at pictures of our loved one it make us appreciate them more, you can feel the power that a picture can hold.
quote 2-" To collect photographs is to collect the world."
reaction- this quote has a special meaning, I definitely think that when we collect photos to collect the world, with every picture we take we take a piece from that moment with us forever, that we can always look back and reflect on. photographing people and places is a way of creating, and having a relation to the world.
Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems’s Landmark “Kitchen Table Series
quote 1-"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."
reflection- I admire the strength she had to create something so powerful. Carrie Mae helped others to find themselves through art, women have not always been considered as important, but she didn't let society's limitations control her. She let her art speak loud for others and herself.
quote 2-“This woman can stand in for me and for you; she can stand in for the audience, she leads you into history. She’s a witness and a guide,” Weems told fellow photographer Dawoud Bey in a discussion for Bomb magazine in 2009. “Carrying a tremendous burden, she is a Black woman leading me through the trauma of history. I think it’s very important that as a Black woman she’s engaged with the world around her; she’s engaged with history, she’s engaged with looking, with being. She’s a guide into circumstances seldom seen.”
Weems exemplifies how women can influence. She, like most other African American women, was aware that they were completely omitted from art and were not shown, and when she created this series, she did so in a way that few others had done before. This series helps to give African Americans representation through art; however, I believe that its true purpose is to demonstrate that, even when constrained by society's limitations, women play many different roles throughout their lifetimes and daily lives selfhood, motherhood, lover all of which are essential to society.
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