PPL OF COLOR
"Everytime you ask a question you get the impression they aren't thinking so much about what the honest answer is, but about what answer would make them look best. The truth doesn't enter into it, unless it happens to coincide with their own best interests." - Andy Rooney
Vincent Lee Smith - Mannequins
What does it mean to be "White" in America?
The Mannequin series began when I started using photography to question what it means to be "White" in America and I thought: why not use mannequins as stand-ins for people.
I conceived the project as a kind of "Twilight Zone" comment on consumerism as espoused by white culture in America, and how it is embraced as the crux of the American Dream. Much like a scientist tries to learn more about a species by what it eats, maybe we can learn what it means to be white in America by the images it propogates and consumes.
