Sally Mann is best known for
photographing her young children in a way that some would label risky or
inappropriate. The photographer was born in Virginia in the fifties and her
most famous works are of her children during the eighties and nineties. Her work
is done in black and white on her large format film camera. Mann spent years
capturing photos of her young children moving about naturally and often in the
nude.
Part of the
reason Mann became so well known is because of the controversy caused by her
photographs. She took photos of her children in ways that captured their young
vulnerability, but in a way that was also confusing and emotional to viewers.
Many people saw and still do see the pictures Mann took of her children as
taboo. The photographs she took captured their natural innocence through the
way she saw her children, as their mother. This connection between the photographer and
her subject matter was the basis of her powerful work.
I also really enjoy the artist's use of lighting in her photographs.
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