Sally Mann

Photography

Photographing her daughters mostly, Sally Mann creates stunning black and white photographs. Her somewhat controversial subject matter can seem wrong to some. The photographs were took in a summer cabin along a river where her three children played and swam, which Sally Mann captured, but some of the images touch upon darker themes such as insecurity, injury, sexuality and death.

Here Sally Mann's daughters show to be playing roles of older women, smoking a cigarette and looking after children, obviously things children shouldn't be doing. This is an example of Sally Mann's boundary pushing.

I love the deep tones of her black and white photography and the way the sitters' body and facial expressions are of someone a lot older.