Sally Mann

Sally Mann has some interesting concepts on photography which is not the central focus. Although she has been known for her more controversial photographs, such as her children nude, she takes some vivid images - particularly death. Usually when a photographer goes on a photo shoot their goal is to create the best portraits possible after numerous amounts of photographs - and usually in the end, we enjoy the ones we initially did not like. Also what I did learned from her is the example of taking pictures of various landscapes and making them have a retro look using a sepia tone or black and white and changing the lighting structures and so forth. It gives a oldies film look to it, or scenes from an older movie. I found her desire for the project about death and life to be different. She said something that caught my attention, 'that American's do not like the concept of death, leave it in the nursing homes...' This caught me off guard because its true, and the fact that she was working with death was different than what we normally see.