Week 2: Camera Use: Artists: Sally Mann (Aperture DOF)

From Lens To Photo: Sally Mann Captures Her Love

Uploaded on Feb 17, 2011

Sally Mann, considered one of the most influential photographers of her time, has recently focused her work on her husband of 40 years, Larry. About 15 years ago, Larry was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Mann photographed him in a project called “Proud Flesh.” “He’s really brave,” she says. (Photos by Sally Mann; Produced by Bilal Qureshi and Claire O’Neill/NPR).

"Danielle's Sally Mann Photo Project":  http://youtu.be/-RgkxKaDVKo

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   1. Sally Mann Photographer
   2. Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Wikipedia
   4. Born: May 1, 1951 (age 63), Lexington city, Virginia, United States
   5. Spouse: Larry Mann
   6. Children: Jessie Mann, Emmett Mann, Virginia Mann
   7. Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
   8. Education: Hollins University (1975), Hollins University (1974), Bennington College (1969–1971), The Putney School (1969)
      
      
      
      
      

   Sally Mann  sallymann.com 479 × 600S search by image  Sally Mann | At Twelve

   
   

   
   

   

   Portrait of Sally Mann by Michelle Hood

   Sally Mann (American, b.1951) is best known for her black-and-white photographs, featuring portraiture and landscapes in the southern United States. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, and attended Hollins College. She began working as a photographer for Washington and Lee University after graduation, and her photographs of the construction of the University’s library were included in her first solo exhibition, held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Mann received great acclaim and critique for her Immediate Family series, in which she photographed her own children, often nude, in ethereal, unsettling works, picturing the everyday activities and games of a child while alluding to darker and more serious themes of loss, sexuality, loneliness, and death. 

   
   

   Mann’s more recent works include photographs of landscapes in the Deep South, which incorporate 19th century methods of developing photographs, and use damaged cameras and lenses, giving her work a scratched, unfinished look that continually references the photographic process. Mann has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and has published several books of her photography. She exhibits her work around the world, in cities such as New York, Berlin, Chicago, Rome, and Tokyo. She currently lives and works in her hometown of Lexington, Virginia.

   Reference: http://www.artnet.com/artists/sally-mann/biography
   
   

   Family Portraits   Reference: http://sallymann.com
   

   

   Immediate Family and controversy[edit]

   Mann is perhaps best known^[11] for Immediate Family, her third collection, first exhibited in 1990 by Edwynn Houk Gallery in Chicago and published as a monograph in 1992.^[12] The New York Times said, “Probably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world.”^[4] The book consists of 65 black-and-white photographs of her three children, all under the age of 10. Many of the pictures were taken at the family's remote summer cabin along the river, where the children played and swam in the nude. Many explore typical childhood themes (skinny dipping, reading the funnies, dressing up, vamping, napping, playing board games) but others touch on darker themes such as insecurity, loneliness, injury, sexuality and death. The controversy on its release was intense, including accusations of child pornography (both in America^[13] and abroad^[14]) and of contrived fiction with constructed tableaux.^[4]

   Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Mann

   
   

   
   Sally Mann is a very talented photographer. Her photos to her were art and she creates each photo with a lot of thought and time. The family portraits are very intense and out there, not my style of photography, I do not agree with her family portraits. The children do not look like they enjoyed their mother’s pain stacking time she took with each photo shoot. 

   The eyes are very emotionless and often looked sad. Composition is very important in each photo.

   
   

   Southern Landscapes  Reference: http://sallymann.com

   

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   Sally works with the older camera equipment, hand developing and creating each image as she processes it in the darkroom. My idea on the above tree, while exposing the image she used a black piece of cardboard and cut a round hole and moved it in front of the lens while exposing the image onto the paper.

   
   

   
   

   A lot of character in the final Photo, contrast with the Black and White. The tree is in focus and the  rest of the photo has a blurry effect,  F1.8 - 4.5 1/50 ISO100. Tripod. Black and White film.