The Cost of Sally Mann’s Exposure – NYTimes.com

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Sally Mann’s Exposure

What an artist captures, what a mother knows and what the public sees can be dangerously different things.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-cost-of-sally-manns-exposure.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Out of a conviction that my lens should remain open to the full scope of their childhood, and with the willing, creative participation of everyone involved, I photographed their triumphs, confusion, harmony and isolation, as well as the hardships that tend to befall children — bruises, vomit, bloody noses, wet beds — all of it.