Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Sally Mann

I actually really enjoyed looking into the work of Sally Mann. I feel like she is a very well rounded individual and it's nice to see someone speak so openly over death and the photographic documentation of it. She's quite inspiring as an artist.
The work she did using her own children, showing their everyday lives, whilst looking at different cultural perceptions of bigger topics such as death and sexuality is a little questionable overall. I personally do not feel her work really falls under anything morally wrong though, as the way she uses her children here does not seem to harm them whatsoever.
The Body Farm work is quite amazing to look at for me. I suppose in some sense the questions about taking photos of dead people is again questionable. From what I understood the bodies were already given for scientific purposes, something these people had selected for themselves. In this case there would probably be pictures taken anyway and I feel she is subjecting society on the whole to look at something completely natural. The pictures are quite eerie with the way she takes them, but I really can appreciate what she is showing here.
People should be subjected to more taboo subjects that are completely natural, things we do not see that are everyday parts of life such as death.



It was nice to be able to find something so indepth online. :) She says some very interesting things and is very straight up about the art she creates. I really like that she is particular about taking general pictures of the things around her.

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