Tag: Sally Mann
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Sally Mann Chases Ghosts and Buries the Hatchet in New Memoir, Hold Still | American Photo
Link: Sally Mann doesn’t believe in talent. She believes in hard work. The kind of work it takes to ride unruly horses, to hoist an 8×10 camera, to constantly fend off controversy, and to write an honest book about a complicated existence.
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The Color of Humanity in Sally Mann’s South | The New Yorker
The Color of Humanity in Sally Mann’s South The photographer makes work so rooted in place that it is inseparable from history, from lore, and from the effects of slavery. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-color-of-humanity-in-sally-manns-south We’re in Virginia, where the photographer Sally Mann was born, in 1951, and where she still lives, making work so…
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Listen: Sally Mann On Exploring Intimate Ephemera and Ethics Through Photography | American Photo
Listen: Sally Mann On Exploring Intimate Ephemera and Ethics Through Photography In this interview with Tracy O’Neill, Social Media Curator at the New York Public Library, Sally Mann reminisces on both her past and the creation of her memoir Hold Still. Mann’s memoir is undeniably personal and revealing, which brings to the forefront questions of…
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Pathways from Darkroom to Digital – The New Yorker
Pathways from Darkroom to Digital Eight renowned photographers discuss how they’ve navigated technological changes in the medium. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/adapting-to-the-digital-revolution In a new book, “From Darkroom to Daylight,” Harvey Wang interviews fellow-photographers and other renowned photo-world professionals about their experiences navigating technological changes in the medium. Some, such as Sally Mann, have continued to rely…
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The Online Photographer: The Sally Mann Article
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…
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The Cost of Sally Mann’s Exposure – NYTimes.com
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…
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5B4: Proud Flesh by Sally Mann
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… Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2009/10/proud-flesh-by-sally-mann.html Proud Flesh is for me an emotionally exhausting work about withering. It has elements of 19th century clinical photography done with absolute loving care…
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Photographer Sally Mann's best shot
Link: Photographer Sally Mann’s best shot | The Guardian: Larry was excited about the work from the beginning. We’ve been married almost 40 years, and he has muscular dystrophy. It’s fairly pronounced now, but the pictures don’t show it much; it’s not something I wanted to emphasise. He is a big, strong man, but his…
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Sally Mann Portrait in Which She’s the Star
NYT: Ms. Mann’s approach to her subject certainly had precedents in art. In the 1920s the photographers Imogen Cunningham and Nell Dorr took nude pictures of children in the wilds as expressions of their own interest in naturalism. But Ms. Mann’s images arrived just as the country was beginning to fall deeper and deeper under…