Sally Mann (Personal Work Research)

Man is an American photographer who has achieved a high standing in the photographic world along with wining several awards, her work is also part of several collections and institutions, and she has also published several books of her works and a feature film about her and her work.

Mann has worked in several areas of photography including portraiture, architecture, landscape, and still life, but she is probably best known for her portraits of her family, which has often been controversial, but has still been an influence to Meany.

 I’m looking at a particular body of work by Mann one called Faces, these are images of Mann’s family members, who she has asked to lay underneath a large format camera for the duration of the exposure. I really like the style of these images, to start with the closeness of the faces is really amazing it makes the works feel very personal because of the fact that your so close to some ones face witch isn’t normal how we interact, it also make features of the face stand out a lot drawing attention to them. I also really like the style that using the film has given them with some of them being slightly damaged looking or part of them blown out, it gives the images a kind of aesthetic which makes the works interesting to look at.

This is the main inspiration and starting point for my personal work, and gave me the idea for doing a long exposure self-portrait, because I liked the work so much and felt that I could develop a good idea around the idea of long exposures and self-portraits.


http://sallymann.com/selected-works/faces (Image and information source)