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DEEP SOUTH is a much-anticipated collection of Sally Mann's exquisite, ethereal landscape photographs. Many of these photographs are produced with the 19th century collodian process plus a variety of toning techniques and capture what Mann calls the radical light of the American South. Borrowing methods from the early masters of the genre Mann produces landscape photographs of classic craftsmanship, bending it to serve the expressive needs of a heightened contemporary sensibility. Technical imperfections, such as light leaks or scratches on negatives, echo the accidental, chaotic workings of time. From ghostly images of historic battlefields to painterly visions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and her native Virginia, Mann's landscape photographs transport the viewer to another time and place. This is the first book dedicated soley to Mann's landscape photos and it is sure to appeal to her loyal fans as well as to anyone drawn to the strange beauty of the land as seen through the lens of a preeminent artist.

Издательство: "Hachette Book Group" (2008)

ISBN: 978-0-8212-2876-0

Mann, Sally

▪ 1994

      By the fall of 1993, when "Sally Mann: Still Time," a 60-print photographic retrospective covering 20 years of work, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the photographer in question had already earned a fair amount of notoriety. Mann first found herself mired in controversy after her series of black-and-white portraits, entitled "Immediate Family," was unveiled in the spring of 1992 at Houk Friedman, a gallery in New York City. Those photographs created a stir because they focused on her three children, who often appeared nude and in postures, situations, and settings that some viewers found disturbing. Some questioned whether Mann had exploited her children, while others debated about whether the images invaded the realm of child pornography. Still others lavishly praised the collection as an honest exploration of the complexities of childhood.

      In "Damaged Child," one of Mann's earliest portraits in the series (begun in 1984), her eldest daughter, Jessie, appears with a swollen eye and an expression seething with recrimination, a look some interpreted as belonging to a victim of child abuse. In truth, Jessie had been bitten by a gnat. Another Mann portrait shows her oldest child, Emmett, with melted Popsicle smearing his genitals. Yet another shot depicts her youngest daughter, Virginia, sleeping nude on a urine-stained mattress with her legs flung apart.

      In the introduction to her book Immediate Family (1992), Mann wrote that "many of these pictures are intimate . . . but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry." With these staged visual explorations, Mann captured some of the darker images of childhood and raised some thought-provoking issues. She was hailed for her painstaking technique, which involved mentally sketching each photograph and discarding dozens of shots before extensively labouring in the darkroom to achieve the desired effect.

      Mann, who was born in 1951 in Lexington, Va., was introduced to photography by her father, Robert Munger, a physician who photographed her nude as a girl. In 1969, as a teenager, Mann took up photography in Vermont at the Putney School and then spent two years at Bennington College, where she studied under photographer Norman Sieff and met and proposed to Larry Mann, her husband of 22 years. After spending a year in Europe, she graduated (1974) summa cum laude from Hollins College, Roanoke, Va., and a year later she earned a master's degree in writing.

      In 1983, using her century-old 8 × 10-in view camera, Mann started photographing 12-year-old girls. That series was showcased in her 1988 book, At Twelve. Another series, "Dream Sequence," explores the psychology of relationships. More recently, Mann resumed landscape photography and extended her photographic style to include more colour work. (EDWARD PAUL MORAGNE)

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Источник: Mann, Sally

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