Sally Mann was born on May 1, 1951 in Lexington, Virginia. Sally was introduced to photography at a young age by her father, who took a nude photograph of her. When she was a teenager she decided to take up photography in Vermont around 1969. Mann then spent 2 years at Bennington College, she met and her husband there who is Larry Mann and got to study with photographer Norman Sieff. Shortly after she went and spent a year in Europe and then ended up graduating in 1974 from Hollin College, now Hollin University. After reading about Sally’s history I can see that she grew up around photography and now its her life. I think that’s why her images are very realistic in my opinion about death and sexuality.
Sally Mann based her work around death, sexuality, and childhood, the …show more content…
She took a lot of her photos in black in white with an 8x10-inch view camera. Mann doesn’t stage her pictures she captures them if she sees them angry, nude, or sick. It was said that she was hailed for her darker images of child hood and that her painstaking technique was what made her work powerful. Sally did use the darkroom a lot so she could get the desired effect on her pictures. Most of her techniques came from 19th century photographers. For example, Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the people she got her techniques from. One of Julia’s techniques was using an unwieldy glass plate. She tried to achieve a historical look to her photos by using variations of exposure and contrast.
Sally portrayed her style as and an everyday activity expect she would mostly take nude girls and have them look dirty or sick to show a different perspective in that time period. Most critics thought her work was disturbing and inappropriate. Why would she does this type of work you may ask? Well, it mostly came from her father because when she was young he took pictures
exactly like this so it was second nature to her. But soon she turned her perspective
Sally Mann based her work around death, sexuality, and childhood, the …show more content…
She took a lot of her photos in black in white with an 8x10-inch view camera. Mann doesn’t stage her pictures she captures them if she sees them angry, nude, or sick. It was said that she was hailed for her darker images of child hood and that her painstaking technique was what made her work powerful. Sally did use the darkroom a lot so she could get the desired effect on her pictures. Most of her techniques came from 19th century photographers. For example, Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the people she got her techniques from. One of Julia’s techniques was using an unwieldy glass plate. She tried to achieve a historical look to her photos by using variations of exposure and contrast.
Sally portrayed her style as and an everyday activity expect she would mostly take nude girls and have them look dirty or sick to show a different perspective in that time period. Most critics thought her work was disturbing and inappropriate. Why would she does this type of work you may ask? Well, it mostly came from her father because when she was young he took pictures
exactly like this so it was second nature to her. But soon she turned her perspective