Nashira Selfie & Quotes

 

On Photography

1.    “To collect photographs is to collect the world.”

2.      “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.”

Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems’s Landmark “Kitchen Table Series”

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

2.      “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

1.      “Sherman’s dazzling skill as a perpetual shape-shifter is perhaps her major contribution to contemporary art.”

2.      “I think I was part of a movement, a generation, and maybe the most popular one of that movement at the time, but it probably would have happened without me.”