Visual Clarity and Emotional Ambiguity: Graciela Iturbide’s Mercado de Sonora, 1987
One might initially assume that they are the butcher but their outfit contradicts that assumption. The clean sleeves framing the newspaper, the fading pleats on the front of their pants, as well as the small decoration on their hat all provide context that this person may not be the butcher afterall.
Doubt, Sexuality, Faith, and Reality: Jacolby Satterwhite’s Reifying Desire Three
In Reifying Desire Three, Satterwhite seems to explore honoring his mother’s struggle as a woman with sexual needs and desires and her sketches being a physical expression of those as well as her struggle with stabilizing medication.
Cameron and Eastlake: Opposed in Photographic Art
Julia Margaret Cameron, born in India in 1815, started photographing at the age of 48 in England, and “she soon became obsessed with photography, reveling in its messy magic and focusing more on the overall effects of her pictures than on technical perfection,” (Cameron).