Photography Of 1960

Baltimore Museum of Art: Photography of the 1960’s The exhibit we went to see was a gallery walk. It was an exhibit of pictures and the artists who produced the photos, and the meaning of the photos. We enjoyed it because it was particularly interesting how the 1960’s was portrayed through photography. It showed not only white Americans but African-Americans making it easily relatable. It showed hard times, fun times and how they made the hard times fun times. The strengths in the exhibit were the realistic ideas. These were some of the earliest photographs in history they weren’t just paintings or portrayal of the good life in these times. You always read about history and what happened in what times, but these photos in this exhibit showed it firsthand. A lot of the photos were open for interpretation.
The photographer was Carrie Mae Weems, and the photos were entitled “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried” along with “House/Field/Yard/Kitchen”. The photos were red and appeared to be African American slaves. Each had a word on top of it “house, field, yard or kitchen” and on each side of the sets of photos appears to be an African woman with the text “I Cried”. Weems wanted it to be interpreted as the racial oppression and suffering. She also wanted it to be reinterpreted by the generations. We saw it as how far African-Americans had come along while others in the past may have seen it as sad and dreary because of everything African-Americans went through to get where they are