Kitchen Table Series

 

Living Room Table Series- Mel Uraga

On Photography 

“Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it”

 

-This made me realize how important it is to have things photographed because then it is definite evidence that something did exist. Without it we may have never known what really is/was. 

 

“taking photographs had no clear social use; it was a gratuitous, that is, an artistic activity, though with few pretensions to being an art”

 

-It is crazy to think how people back in the day used photography for fun and giggles and did not realize just how much value or how much of a story their photographs really held within. When they started to realize the importance of storytelling within photographs that is when it started to become an art. 

 

Kitchen Table Series 

“Everyone can relate to this work, 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.”

 

-Photography/art in general is such an interesting thing. To someone, a photograph might mean an entirely different thing than someone else, and neither version is right or wrong. A photograph is unique to oneself because of their experiences and understandings. 

 

“…how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world”

-This quote made me realize just how small we really are as humans but how much of an impact our actions can make. Taking the Kitchen Table Series as an example, through such a small amount of space, Carrie Mae was able to speak volumes and tell so many different stories that ended up inspiring so many people.