Mathew Zurita
ART- 398 - 2391
Professor. Cacoilo
New Jersey City University
February 21, 2025
Art on My Mind by bell hooks
- "Most Southern black folks grew up in a context where snapshots and the more stylized photographs taken by professional photographers were the easiest images to produce." Page 74
- This statement means that for many Black people in the Southern United States, the most readily available photographs of themselves were simple snapshots taken at home or informal settings, as well as more posed, "stylized" photos taken by professional photographers at studios, due to limited access to other forms of photography, often making these the primary visual representation of their lives and identities within their communities.
- Snapshots and studio photos were easier to obtain than other types of photography, especially in rural areas, due to cost, availability of photographers, and technology limitations.
- For Black people historically, having photographs, even if simple, was important to document their lives and present themselves with dignity in a society often filled with negative stereotypes
- "The work of Carrie Mae Weems visually engages a politics of anti-colonialism". Page 81
- The work of Carrie Mae Weems is anticolonial in that it challenges Euro-American paradigms of white power.
- Weems reimagines notable scenes of violence by placing herself as a Black woman into classically White stories.
- Weems reactivates historical imagery by studying in museums and archives.
- Weems disrupts embedded codes of aesthetic and phenomenological relation.
- Weems often inserts herself in her work, embodying and commemorating the Black female subject.
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