Sally Mann, 1990
Deoarece luna aceasta sărbătorim femeile-fotograf, vă povestim despre cea mai cunoscută artistă care şi-a fotografiat familia într-un mod mai neobişnuit.
As for those scandalized children of hers? "They all turned out fine, thank you very much."
Sally Mann’s images counter a saccharine, naive notion of childhood and show how children’s lives can be fraught with violence, shame, confusion, and fear, as well as joy and grace. But as Mann’s children grew older, they seemed to become smaller, receding into the distance of her photographs as the landscape grew around them. The misty, romantic tableaux of the Southern landscape that we might expect—lush forests and rivers, the ruins of grand colonial houses, their columns covered in wild ivy—was only one perspective. Mann seems to indict such images as merely conventional with her photograph of the boat lock and Tallahatchie River, in the Mississippi Delta, where the body of Emmett Till was thrown in 1955. The river view would seem banal were it not for the branch that reaches over the water like a twisted hand, and the single shaft of light plunging from the lock like a blade.
In her memoir, released in May, 2015, Sally Mann reveals an intimate, visceral, and beautiful family history, steeped in the gritty landscape of the American South. Combining startling photographs with narrative prose, the author captivates readers by piecing together artifacts from her ancestors and their surroundings. Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs was a National
Sally Mann: Juventud, desnudos y muertos
Following Sally Mann’s well-received memoir, Hold Still, and years after the controversy over her photographs of her children, a fresh look at a reissue of Immediate Family.
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Pain, writes Rainer Maria Rilke, “tolerates no interpretation. Nature is completely unaware that it causes us pain ... and because nature does not take our consciousness into consideration, it becomes our task not to dissolve pain into our consciousness. It appears that one has to let pain burn itself out wherever it…
Deoarece luna aceasta sărbătorim femeile-fotograf, vă povestim despre cea mai cunoscută artistă care şi-a fotografiat familia într-un mod mai neobişnuit.
Sally Mann caused a storm with nude portraits of her children ... then turned her camera on rotting corpses. See a selection of photographs from her exhibition
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Susan Sarandon Patti Smith Johnny Cash and June Carter Liza Minnelli Angelina Jolie with her son Maddox Philippe Petit Susan Sontag Oprah Winfrey Angelina Jolie Ellen Degeneres Mikhail Baryshnikov Susan Sontag Courtney Love Winona Ryder Anne Heche Kate Moss and Johnny Depp…
Sally Mann reflects on her life and work with unflinching vitality in Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs.
Deoarece luna aceasta sărbătorim femeile-fotograf, vă povestim despre cea mai cunoscută artistă care şi-a fotografiat familia într-un mod mai neobişnuit.
When I reached Sally Mann by phone, she asked me to wait a few minutes before we talked. “I’m in the darkroom,” she explained. This might be expected: If Mann isn’t out shooting in her mobile photography lab—a converted GMC...
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