Sally Mann poses the kind of questions which haunt many poets and philosophers, embracing the land as witness, including Canadian writers Candace Savage and Sharon Butala, who have written powerfully about the landscape of memory. (I am reminded, too, of the haunting but beautiful image on the cover...
Sally Mann has done some remarkable work in her lifetime. Her portraits are amazing, especially of her family members. I am not so enamored with her book of corpses and death though I am quite well aware there are many who are. I am also not so enamored with this book either. The photographs are bea...
Sally Mann has been working in the photographic arts since 1970. Her observations and creations are a complex and puzzling mix of reverence, audacity, empathy, objectivity, vulgarity, beauty, the familiar and the strange. That and her unusual techniques make her highly revered and controversial. You...