dinismith: Emmett and the White Boy - Sally Mann I love the work she did with her family. A lot of her photos are controversial but from my point of view, the scenes depict something that every parent sees when their child is growing up. I know my parents have photos of me as a kid running around without a stitch of clothing up and even some of the cuts and bruises I got along the way. Of course, Sally Mann took those photographs both deliberately and spontaneously which give a completely different effect to the photos but they are no less breathtaking or precious and I certainly don’t think they’re perverse. 

dinismith:

Emmett and the White Boy - Sally Mann

I love the work she did with her family. A lot of her photos are controversial but from my point of view, the scenes depict something that every parent sees when their child is growing up. I know my parents have photos of me as a kid running around without a stitch of clothing up and even some of the cuts and bruises I got along the way. Of course, Sally Mann took those photographs both deliberately and spontaneously which give a completely different effect to the photos but they are no less breathtaking or precious and I certainly don’t think they’re perverse. 

dinismith: Emmett and the White Boy - Sally Mann I love the work she did with her family. A lot of her photos are controversial but from my point of view, the scenes depict something that every parent sees when their child is growing up. I know my parents have photos of me as a kid running around without a stitch of clothing up and even some of the cuts and bruises I got along the way. Of course, Sally Mann took those photographs both deliberately and spontaneously which give a completely different effect to the photos but they are no less breathtaking or precious and I certainly don’t think they’re perverse. 

dinismith:

Emmett and the White Boy - Sally Mann

I love the work she did with her family. A lot of her photos are controversial but from my point of view, the scenes depict something that every parent sees when their child is growing up. I know my parents have photos of me as a kid running around without a stitch of clothing up and even some of the cuts and bruises I got along the way. Of course, Sally Mann took those photographs both deliberately and spontaneously which give a completely different effect to the photos but they are no less breathtaking or precious and I certainly don’t think they’re perverse. 

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This tumblr is dedicated to the photographer Sally Mann. Time Magazine named her America's Best Photographer in 2001, writing:

"Mann recorded a combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments of childhood repose and revealingly—sometimes unnervingly—imaginative play. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. No other collection of family photographs is remotely like it, in both its naked candor and the fervor of its maternal curiosity and care."

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