Unity of Family (selfie and quote)

Susan Sontag excerpt from On Photography:

• “Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood."
• “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.”

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

• “Viewers may not be able to see the world outside of the kitchen’s walls, but her characters are trying to navigate it all the same.”
• “Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience”

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. ”
• “ She mirrored my state of mind at the time, a woman artist who was tired of all the bravado of the male-dominated art world.”