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This Week in Photography History: The Birth of...

zorkon: This Week in Photography History: The Birth of Sally Mann http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/05/04/this-week-in-photography-history-the-birth-of-sally-mann/

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“My plates are horribly flawed. But of course, it’s the flaws I like. So you...”

– Sally Mann on Art21. (via tobia)

May 10th

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INTERVIEW: Sally Mann – “The Touch of an Angel”...

Jiang Rong: One of the words most often used to describe your work is “unflinching”. To me, you dare to break the taboos, like sex, nudity, and death. Is it important for an artist to be so unafraid?

Sally Mann: There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, “If you don’t break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough.” I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself and tell myself, “That’s not good enough. I could do better”. Working with Larry, there were times when I knew I was close to a picture, but it was not quite there. So I said, “Let’s just work a little more”. I was out of my comfort zone and started to have anxiety about these pictures. I would wonder if maybe some pictures were too risky or too revealing, that maybe this picture makes Larry look bad. There is one in which he is curled up in a fetal position and looks so helpless. I saw that scene and said to myself, “Do I dare take a picture like that?” I was sweating, but I did. You have to be overcome your fear of the picture and take it.

May 4th

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