The photographs present a kitchen table with a single light hanging above, around which events from an apparent 20 year period of an unnamed woman occur. If those three represent what I have to look forward to in the coming year, I’m in for an inspiring (or frustrating) trip every couple of months.īut the real star of the package-and my bookshelves-is the Kitchen Table Series. Wolukau-Wanambwa, other than the excellent Great Leap Sideways and its tumblr companion, but he’s all over the place). If you can get your hands on a copy, do it.Īlong with the book, Light Work sent 3 recent back issues of its Contact Sheet publication: 187, the 2016 Annual 188 with a series by Todd Grey and 189 with one from Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (I couldn’t find a website for Mr. Yet it’s a universal, and important tale.
My mom would recognize something different from it my wife something different still none of us would get all the way to what some of my coworkers might understand. It’s a look into a life we all share, and simultaneously a life we, or I, for one, really know nothing about and to which we have little access. Little did I know the importance of the Kitchen Table Series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the subscription to Aperture I received as a gift earlier in the year, and I reasoned that 1) another regular photography publication will be welcome, and 2) a signed copy of a photobook I didn’t know anything about would at least add something to the bookshelf. I hemmed and hawed about it for a couple of days, and then pounced. I don’t know where they got my email address-probably some mailing list-type service-but Light Work sent me an email with an advertisement for their 2017 Book Collectors Offer: a signed copy of Carrie Mae Weems’ new book of her 1990 Kitchen Table Series and a 2017 subscription to Contact Sheet for a fairly reasonable price.
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