After watching Steven Cantor's film about sally Mann, which was shot over a period of five years and discusses the techniques used by Mann as well as focusing on her personal life. I discovered the beauty in her pictures, a sense of seductiveness and innocence. While her black and white prints of her children have been known to be controversial I feel that they hold a timeless quality that is in part quite haunting. She uses a a one hundred year old 8" by 10" camera to create a ghostly timelessness reminiscent of early Victorian photography.
"...I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanence, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring."
Sally Mann
Sally Mann
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