Annotated Bibliography #6

In this photograph, I see a woman looking like a mom and three girls. I see a light hanging on the ceiling, an air duck on the wall in the background, a door in the background. A thick book, a notebook, and a pen are on the table in front of the woman. She is sitting in the center/ head of the table, wearing a black cloth and she is looking at a girl on the right to her. Her face looks a little serious. She has her both hands around her face.

A girl to the right of the woman is wearing something decorative on her head/hair. She is wearing a sleeveless. She is playing with her hands, looking like. There is another little girl across from this girl, which would be the woman’s left side. She is wearing an earing, a hair band, and a bracelet, and something on her right hand/arm. Is she holding cards? And there is a little bigger, skinny lady between the woman and the little girl on the woman’s left side. She is not sitting like everyone else.  She looks like she is serving something to the three ladies on the table. She is wearing a apron. She is wearing an earring.

Normally, the dead of the table is wear the head of the family sits, like the father in patriarchal social system. In this photo, Weems herself is sitting at the head of the table with a highly intelligent book in front of her. She seems to having a teaching to her daughters. Sheets explains how Weems came to do a photo-shooting of kitchen table series. Seems Weems saw her female students not representing themselves as male students did, running away from the camera. Then she created a series of Kitchen Table where she is at the center of the picture and the table, right below the light like spotlighting. She kind of shows authority in this photo. 

Sheets, Hilarie M. "Photographer and Subject Are One." The New York Times. The New York Times, 15 Sept. 2012. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.