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

by Jacqui Palumbo for Artsy

• 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.

• In 1989, Carrie Mae Weems began setting up her camera every day in her kitchen, in front of a simple wooden table illuminated by a single overhead light. And from that table, a fictional life unfolds, with Weems playing the lead role.

2.     Susan Sontag excerpt from On Photography

• But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images.

• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. 

3.     The Cindy Sherman Effect by Phoebe Hoban for ArtNews

• we live in the era of YouTube fame and reality-TV shows and makeovers, where you can be anything you want to be any minute of the day, and artists are responding to that.

• And then there is a whole new crop of artists whose sensibility has been shaped by the Internet and social media, major influences that didn’t even exist when Sherman first began her photographic odyssey.

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