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11/12/2003
Sally Mann
A conversation with photographer Sally Mann
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A conversation with photographer Sally Mann about her book "What Remains" and her early career as a writer.
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In this candid and personal interview, Sally Mann shows that she is not only a consummate artist, but a very real person. Her observations on family, life an death are the artist as observer, involved but distant, a commentator on her world. Perhaps it is the journalistic background, pehaps she is like Monet, who while his wife lay dying observed that he was dispassionately (although he loved her) watching the colors change in her skin as she lost her battle with disease. Artists exist to show us another vantage point, to make us feel and think in a different way about the world around us. If that is "crazy", may we all be so.
she is a calm perceptive woman who is willing to take a risk at something she finds interesting --Who isn't interested in death or the beauty of everything around you. the children are on phase of her growth as a woman and artist her landscapes another, the death series another... we all have walked up to a dead animal and looked closely we just didn't take a picture. now maybe I will. I find her to be the person I would like to let out of the constraints of who I "should be"
I’ve been surrounded by art and artists since the day I was born and if I have learned anything from that exposure it’s that how people react to a work of art be it music, painting, photography whatever the medium, is a more accurate representation of who they are then it is about the piece or it‘s creator. I’m paraphrasing, but Bob Dylan said: “People walk up and they think they know me because of some song I wrote... That’s got nothing to do with me. They still don‘t know me” None of us know why the artist created it, what it means to them, what or if they are saying anything with it. The great thing about art is that each of us makes it our own when we take it in. Each of us is unique, so perception will be as well.
Um, Rob, you're insane if you don't get this. Things grow from child to adult, there are borderlands that we must pass through. And things die and rot away. It's life. Her art is an expression of those difficult places that we all pass through.
The problem is that hers is a very uncomfortable subject an artistic intention sometimes dosn't alleviate the discomfort of the subject. Most people feel very protective of children and in her portaits the vulnerability sounds an alarm. I understand why she would want to capture that look at that age it is beautiful.I remember brooke shields had similar photographs taken when she was young and it was a huge controversy personal choice versus her job as a model at that age versus parental guidance. There is a question of exploitation for its own sake and there is a what is she really trying say in her photos. If she were a man would it still be ok? I wonder.
The comment above me is out of line! This women is not crazy! Shes a talented artist doing what artist do....Art! Shes amazing. Being a photographer myself I feel I can relate to her!
Look into her eyes. She's crazy.