5B4: Proud Flesh by Sally Mann

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Proud Flesh by Sally Mann

When Sally Mann released her book At Twelve in the late-1980s the art world was rife with artists concerned with exploring the body polit…

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Proud Flesh is for me an emotionally exhausting work about withering. It has elements of 19th century clinical photography done with absolute loving care for the subject. Its factual surface is quickly replaced by metaphor and the haze of imperfection from the wet-plate collodion negatives she employs