Sally Mann

I choose Sally Man because I am really interested in how she makes her The Flesh and the Spirit and her work Proud Flesh photos look.  I have been thinking about making one or two of the photos for each subject look aged like how hers do.  I want to do this to show in a discrete way that this culture has been around for thousands of years.  I am interested in making my environment and possibly my object photo look aged (possibly in different way ) like her The Flesh and the Spirit and Proud Flesh photos.  I also like how she takes photos in the process she likes the most.  She sticks to taking pictures of things she loves (whether it is easy or difficult to take the picture) in the processes she likes no matter what controversy they bring or doubt from the public.

Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, VA.  Her photography career started in the early 1970's.  She is most known for her photos of her immediate family and resonant landscape work. Her photos tend to cause controversy sometimes.  Her series she became first known for were At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988) and Immediate Family (1992).  She had her first solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C.  Most her work stays in black and white an she usually sticks to antique photos technology for her photos.  She was named "America's best photographer" by Time Magazine in 2001. She has been in several exhibitions and won many grants and awards.  Currently she lives in Lexington Va.    

"Most of the pictures I take are of the things I love, the things that fascinate and compel me, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to look at or take. Like Flaubert, two things are sacred to me in my process: impiety and perfection—the former often hereditary, the latter always hard-won. Beyond the felicitous “unifying accidents” that occasionally grace the work, making art requires tenacity, a temperament born of an ungodly cross between a hummingbird and a bulldozer, and, most of all, practice. Practice looking."
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/08/sally_mann_proud_flesh/

"She has long used an 8x10 bellows camera, and has explored platinum and bromoil printing processes. In the mid 1990s she began using the wet plate collodion process to produce pictures which almost seem like hybrids of photography, painting, and sculpture."
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/

 
 http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/clip3.html

http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Exhibitions/Sally-Mann-The-Flesh-and-The-Spirit/

She does not have her own website.