Sally Mann
You are required to discuss a work by a 20th or 21st century artist, photographer, designer, architect, film-maker, philosopher or writer and show how this work reflects, contradicts or extends theories of and attitudes to visual culture current at the time of its making.
I have chosen Sally Mann as my artist as she is an extraordinary photographer that went against the grain to create something completely different. She has a strange way of making outstanding, personal imagery. She inspires my own work because of her ability to see things others would not.
Sally Mann photographs the things that she is closest to. “The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best, unless you photograph what you love, you’re not going to make good art”. What Remains: The life and work of Sally Mann, Part 1? [Uploaded by Aivdd on Jan 21. 2011]. youtube.com/watch?v=XNEd93H4pPY. Most of her work revolves around her husband, her children, her childhood upbringing and the landscape that is her home.
Mann uses an 8x10 bellows camera, and in the mid-1990s she began using the wet plate collodion process to produce photographs. Some of her photographs contain blemishes, stains and imperfections but she accepts these and believes they are what make the photo. “If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I mean I love that, that aspect of photography, it got to have some peculiarity in it or it’s not interesting to me”. SEGMENT: Sally Mann in “Place”. [Release date: 7/14/2011]. pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann/videos
Mann was passionate about horses and in 2006, her horse had an aneurysm while she was riding him, Mann was thrown to the ground and the impact broke her back. She made a series of ambrotype self-portraits during the two years it took for her to recover. These self-portraits were displayed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a part of Sally Mann: the Flesh and the Spirit for the first time in November 2010.
In the 1970’s Mann
I have chosen Sally Mann as my artist as she is an extraordinary photographer that went against the grain to create something completely different. She has a strange way of making outstanding, personal imagery. She inspires my own work because of her ability to see things others would not.
Sally Mann photographs the things that she is closest to. “The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best, unless you photograph what you love, you’re not going to make good art”. What Remains: The life and work of Sally Mann, Part 1? [Uploaded by Aivdd on Jan 21. 2011]. youtube.com/watch?v=XNEd93H4pPY. Most of her work revolves around her husband, her children, her childhood upbringing and the landscape that is her home.
Mann uses an 8x10 bellows camera, and in the mid-1990s she began using the wet plate collodion process to produce photographs. Some of her photographs contain blemishes, stains and imperfections but she accepts these and believes they are what make the photo. “If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I mean I love that, that aspect of photography, it got to have some peculiarity in it or it’s not interesting to me”. SEGMENT: Sally Mann in “Place”. [Release date: 7/14/2011]. pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann/videos
Mann was passionate about horses and in 2006, her horse had an aneurysm while she was riding him, Mann was thrown to the ground and the impact broke her back. She made a series of ambrotype self-portraits during the two years it took for her to recover. These self-portraits were displayed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a part of Sally Mann: the Flesh and the Spirit for the first time in November 2010.
In the 1970’s Mann
Bibliography: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Mann * http://sallymann.com/ * http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/ * http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann * http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/mann_sally.php * http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-sally-manns-immediate-family.html * http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Model_Family.html