The Online Photographer: The Sally Mann Article

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The Sally Mann Article

Most of the photography world (the part that matters, anyway) is talking about Sally Mann’s article in the New York Times, published yesterday. In it, Sally writes at length, and movingly, about the fallout from her 1992 book Immediate Family….

via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2015/04/the-sally-mann-article.html

yesterday’s Times article made me feel profoundly sad. Sally as a young mother just brimmed with life-force—she was fearless, dedicated, and artistically assured; she crackled with intelligence and integrity. It never occurred to me to doubt her character as a mother, or to question her motives, even momentarily. She loved her kids as much as any woman.