Sally Mann 9/16/08
Today we watched a short video about Sally Mann and her old fashion techniques and lifestyles. She grew up in an atheistic family where she was the youngest of three children. Her father was into photography, which is how she ended up with about half-dozen of her first cameras. Sally lived in the south and took pictures using a large format film camera, usually printing them in 8×10 format. She took many spontaneous photos because she believed that art should be fun and not overarching. Many of the photos in her early career were of her children, and usually naked, as well as, usually in the water. For some reason most of the shot consisted of the kids either being in water or just getting out of the water. She later switched her art photography to landscapes, which is what her kids believed were going to be the last impression she left with people.
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