Mann rose to prominence with
Immediate Family, a collection of photographs of her children that
some saw as emotionally direct and others found disturbingly
erotic. Regardless, these photographs, and her subsequent work,
demonstrate that Mann has a preternatural eye for light and
composition. In this book, Mann, inspired by "a cache of glass
negatives...of familiar local places," set off with her camera
through the South, using eighteenth century photographic techniques
to capture the "r
內容簡介:
DESCRIPTION: Sally Mann remains among the most innovative,
talked-about, and daring artists working with a camera today. DEEP
SOUTH is a much anticipated collection of her exquisite, ethereal
landscape photographs, taken in the years since she rose to
international fame with her groundbreaking book Immediate Family.
The photographs in DEEP SOUTH, many produced with the
19th-century collodion process and a variety of toning techniques,
capture what Mann calls the "radical light of the American South."
Borrowing methods favored by early masters of landscape
photography, Mann bends classic craftsmanship to serve the
expressive needs of a heightened contemporary sensibility.
Serendipitous technical imperfections, such as light leaks or
scratches on negatives, echo the accidental, chaotic workings of
time. From ghostly images of historic battlefields to painterly
visions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and her native
Virginia, Mann''s landscape photographs transport the viewer to
another time and place.
關於作者:
Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1951. She has won
numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts
fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her photographs have been
exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of
major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her past publications
include Second Sight, At Twelve, Immediate Family, Still Time, and
What Remains. A documentary film about Mann''s family pictures was
nominated for an Academy Award in 1993. A feature-length follow-up
is in development and will air on HBO and the BBC. Mann lives in
Virginia.