Immediate Family by Sally Mann

 

 Sally Mann makes pictures of children - luminously beautiful black-and -white images of mysteriously elfin children around her rural home in Lexington, Virginia. These are riveting, enigmatic narrative images... 

Ken Johnson Art in America


Sally's Mann astonishing photographs inspires me greatly.

Emmet, Jessie, and Virginia, 1989

The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude, 1987

Candy Cigarette, 1989

Night-blooming Cereus, 1988

  In 2006, Sally Mann suffered an accident while horseback riding in the mountains and spent long time  recovering. She describes the incident as traumatic. Over the course of a year, she took more than 200 self-portraits—mainly of her face and torso—as a kind of art therapy. The high-contrast black and white images are true to her style.

Few self portraits

 

I really enjoyed looking at these self portraits of few known art photographers.

Nan Goldin,  1998.
 

Vivian Maier, 1955
 

Lisette Model,  1940s
 

Eve Arnold, 1950

 



Sally Mann, 1974

Helmut Newton, 1973

 

 



Photographic typologies

_{Images from 100 Abandon Houses  – A record of abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s by Kevin Bauman}

_{Chocolate Bar Cross Section by Rachel Been}

_{James and Other Apes by James Mollison}

 

The term Typology was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hilla Becher began to documenting German architecture in 1959.
Each photograph was taken from the same angle, at approximately the same distance from the buildings.


Bernd and Hilla Becher

Portrait Of A Mother: Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus is a photographer that has a huge impact on me.
                                           


Double self portrait with daughter Doon, 1945.

Self portrait, 1945.