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May 29, 2010
Sally Mann's early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called Immediate Family made with a large-format 8x10 camera. She has continued the portrait work with a series on her husband entitled Proud Flesh.
In her recent series of landscapes of Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and Georgia, Mann has used damaged lenses and a camera that requires the artist to use her hand as a shutter, these photographs are marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century.
Sally Mann, Untitled (Deep South #1), Tea-toned gelatin silver print; Deep South series, 1996-1998
Mann began to experiment with the wet collodian process in the 1990s to create the Deep South photographic series of Mississippi and Louisiana that recall a forgotten past.
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