This American woman became famous for his candid pictures in which her children were the main characters. The game and reality was mixed with the piercing photo, as a result of which a beautiful cocktail called "Nearest relatives", which caused a real flue of emotions. The photographer collapsed public criticism, and Sally Mann Sally Mann (Sally Mann) was accused of veiled children's pornography.

Scandalous project

The author of the provocative work, the favorite technique of which is black and white photo, was born in 1951 in the state of Virginia. Still in school, a little girl loves to show pictures, and with age begins experiments with naked in nature. After graduating from college, she works as a photographer and suits personal exhibitions of their works. However, critics do not pay attention to the new name, and for the general public creativity Sally Mann remains unknown.

And only in 1992, when the light saw the project "Nearest relatives", American becomes famous. Unfortunately, she received fame after a broken scandal when a respectable audience saw obscene poses in children's photos. "Intimate pictures are completely ordinary things that I watch as a mother," Sally Mann said. Children of the author who caused resonance in the society of work were involved in the creative process from infancy, and a woman considers successful frames a real gift of fate.

Documented family life

So she documented the life of his family, revealing the happy childhood of three children under the age of 10 in unexpected angles, which the public perceived with indignation. Frames were removed in time relax In the family house near the river, where daughters and son have fun and played nude, and the housewives could not understand how it was possible to put on the universal review of their children in this form.

The author of the scandalous photo foresaw the stormy reaction of society and consulted with lawyers who told that for some pictures it could even arrest. Sally wanted to postpone the exhibition for 10 years so that the children had matured themselves and understood the consequences of the promulgation of images. However, the guys did not want to wait for so long, and they were invited to them a psychologist who was convinced that they deliberately make their choice, understanding what the publication could lead to. Children themselves selected for the album they liked the staff. The famous Psychiatrist A. Esman after the scandal said that the expressions of the Society of Society "are not erotically stimulating".

Be that as it may, but the album came out, and fierce criticism did not interfere with the growth of popularity.

Reviews of audience

The audience was divided into two camps: some were outraged by provocative images on which children were depicted, others reacted to the veiled erotic with understanding, having considered that Photographer Sally Mann, who knew about the Puritan cultivation of society, deliberately went to such a step to add popularity. She knew exactly what reaction would cause an ambiguous project. However, thoughtful public saw in talented black and white work harmony and beauty in everyday life.

New provocation

The next scandal broke out 13 years ago at the exhibition in Washington, which was carrying the speaking name "remains". The main theme was the death that Sally Mann said that "it must be perceived as a kind of point that allows you to more fully see life." The audience, who became acquainted with the works, the united end of the end of the end, realize that the shadow of the old woman with oblique persecution is constantly.

The American puts on the universal review, what remains from the deceased dog, removes decomposed bodies, but the last part of the exhibition dedicated to her children will instill hope, and the studies of death are completed by love. The author of provocative works declares that the inevitability of death helps us to experience all the completeness of life painted with rainbow shades.

Study of the alend of her husband

In the galleries of the world, a successful photographer exhibits the work of the early period of creativity, showing the world from different angles of view. It creates abstract pictures, landscaped, and on some of them looks into the lens sick husband Sally Mann - Larry, which suffers atrophy muscles. The American woman displaced his long family life in a separate project, called "marital confidence" and covering photos in thirty years, including the most intimate.

Possessing courage, it explores the incurable disease, honestly looking into the lens of his camera. She knows that the viewer may not see all the candid works, but it does not scare it: "Perhaps you will get acquainted with them only after my death, but I know - the photos are already lying in the laboratory."

Monochrome works

Describe the nature of the unique creativity of the master who received many prestigious premiums - the task is not the lungs. Cadres of the original person resemble dreams or vision. The stage in photographs of Sally Mann is minimized, and its characters resemble people living on another planet and gradually forgetting about their past.

The lack of color in the works is a conscious selection of the Creator, which brightly manifests a unique style and creating special magic. Having a talent from God the American sees our world through the camera lens is not the case as the man in the street, and she tries to the audience to convey their look at reality. Her works in some are called real delight, and others condemn them.

Children's problems in the photo

Main Hero Two Documentary Films Sally Mann, whose photographs often demonstrate members of her family, captures various episodes of childhood and affects the difficult moments in the child's life. She tells about solitude, insecurity, vicious thoughts, which in society is not accepted to speak openly, and such sincerity is shocking. The wizard reveals exciting children at any age the problems that parents often close their eyes.

Unreal landscapes

We must admit that in 2001 the premium "Best Photographer of America" \u200b\u200bSally removes not only people, but also creates stunning monochrome landscapes. Thanks to the special vision of the environment, it turns out mystical works, and the audience seems to be in another reality, where there is no human bustle. This is a completely different world in which life flows in their laws and rules.

Sally Mann: Forbidden Photographer

In 2015, Roskomnadzor blocked the pages of the world's leading art portal, where the pictures were often accused of the children's pornography of the American. Russian users will not be able to see the work of an ambiguous master, including a rare shot "three graces", made in 1994. It captures three naked girls.

Now Sally, the black and white works of which are represented in various galleries and museums of the world, lives with family on a farm in Virginia and continues to work, once again turning to the topic of the human body.

Carehummer and actress Sally Mann was born on May 1, 1951 in the city of Electricton, Virginia. Father - therapist Robert S. Manbon, Mother Elizabeth Evans Manger - the owner of a bookstore at the university of the native city of Lexington. Sally and her two senior brothers grew up in the atmosphere of creation and promotion.

Parents did not forbid children to know themselves and the world, Any manifestation of creative notch in their children has been welcomed. A photographer with a special warmth and tenderness recalls his young years in his hometown. I remembers your father, a mystery person, so not similar to typical doctors, with its extraordinary outcomes and an unpretentious thirst for life. It was he who instilled Sally ability to see what was often hidden from our eyes and opened the door to the world behind the photo lens. And most importantly, he taught her to confidently go through life and remember that a person with the character is a reputation for nothing.

Sally Manther graduated from the Patney School in 1969, where the visual art was inhibited. In high school, he was fascinated by photography, starting to photograph their classmates, who were not constrained to her nude. Then she attended Classes in Bennigton College, where he studied photographic art from a photographer Norman Sayene. There, I met my future husband Larry Mann.

In 1954 he graduated with honors from the Literary Branch of College Hollyls in Roanok, Virginia. And a year later I became a master fine arts, Having received the specialty "Writing Mastery". But to indulge in the writer's creativity Sally Mann did not, she was manifering the world, which can only be seen through the lens of an old camera. Therefore, she began to work photographer at Washington University and Lee. And then mann knew that over the years will make a significant contribution to the development of art, for which the award will be awarded from the National Art Foundation, which will be the winner of Guugenheim's Prize, and its work will be exhibited in Museums and Gallery of Washington, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Tokyo.

At 26, Sally presented its first photographs in the Art Gallery of Corcoran in Washington, and in 1984, a photo album "Clairing" appeared. Comments on their works Mann never heard, but then went on the outlined way. In 1988, photographs were published combined into the album "Twelve. Portraits of young women ", in which the author demonstrated the process of becoming a teenage girl in a young woman. Talent Sally Mann noticed and appreciated, however, disputes arose about, perhaps excessive dramaticness and expressness of photographs.

The real squall of emotions, critics and condemns caused her third photo album called "Nearest relatives", who saw the world in 1992. For sixty-five black and white photos, we see close Sally people, her husband and three of their children, the son of Emmeta, daughters Jessie and Virginia. What they are depicted are mostly naked and served as a reason for a rapid discussion. Some photos were susceptible to censorship, as they were clearly erotic character.

Of course, she touched upon the complex moments of the younger child, which is not customary to speak openly: children's fears, uncertainty in themselves, interest in the opposite sex, lack of understanding of adults, loneliness, forbidden dreams and vicious thoughts. Her sincerity of many, to put it mildly, surprised, even shocked. The accusations of the operation of children, violation of moral obstacles. Most critics and representatives of various committees "protect children" called these photos of "veiled children's pornography".

But the photographer was able to give a worthy answer to criticism and scourge in his address, watched in advance legal support, and went forward by the new artistic discoveries that she began to do another age. "These are innocent children's postures. If you see in them eroticism, then this is the problem of your perception, incorrect adult interpretations," she wrote in response to another criticism. And also publicly stated that he published photographs by the consent of children. According to the author himself, she portrayed what the usual mother or father sees, raising her children.

In 1994, the fourth photo album Sally Mann "Still is not time." The mobile exhibition consisted of sixty photographs made for twenty years, they can be seen not only children of Sally, but also unusual landscapes of her native Virginia, as well as abstract work. In the same year, the director Stephen Kantor presents a documentary film about Salley Mann "Bloody Tives" at the Sandom Film Festival, which was nominated for the American Film Academy Prize.

Mann was fascinated by landscapes in the middle of the nineties, using the Central Countercaming Technology of the Photograph. With the help of this technique, its works presented at two exhibitions in New York: in 1997, called Sally Mann - Motherland. Modern landscapes of Georgia and Virginia; In 1999 - "Deep South": Layizing Louisiana and Mississippi. In 2001, Sally Mann deservedly receive recognition as a photographer of the year, according to the magazine "Time".

Works Sally Mann are constantly involved in exhibitions worldwide, included in permanent exposition Many museums. Among them are Museums of Contemporary Art in New York and San Francisco, Museum of Harvard University in Cambridge, Tokyo Museum of Art. The magazine "New York Times" said that "no photographer in history broke out to glory so fast."

Therefore, the famous photohchik made himself talking about themselves with even greater diligence than after the release of her "nearest relatives." In 2004, in the Gallery of Arts, Corcoran in Washington, Salley Mann's work under the name "remains" were presented in the art gallery. The exposition included five sections, four of which united the theme of the inevitability of human life, that is, death. In the photos of the first section, we see what remained from the beloved dog Sally. In the second - dead bodies in the decay process, stored in the federal judicial anthropological fund, known as "Body Farm".

On the photographs of the third part of the exposition depicted a place in the possessions of Mann, where an armed rugged convict was killed. The fourth section returns us in times Civil War In the US, we see the episode of one bloody battle. It seems that the shadow of death will pursue you more than once, but we go to the fifth of the exhibition and understand that the author is optimistic about the future. In the pictures, children Sally Mann, and life began to play rainbow paints. After all, according to the author of these works, death, whatever depressing it, helps to understand all the completeness and saturation of life.

In the sixth photo album "Deep South", published in 2005, the author included photographs made from 1992 to 2004. You can see very different landscapes: from the battlefields and the destroying mansion, overgrown Kudz, to mystical and some unreal paintings of the nature of the distant south. Thanks to the extraordinary vision of the author and to some extent, the technique of a collodion process, the pictures make it possible to look into another reality. It seems, it is worth touching them with your hand, and we will find in a different world where there are no people and inherent fuss. There life flows by itself and lives with its laws.

Sally Mann is still of interest to their works that are invariably created in the photo studio in her native estate.

In 2006, the premiere of the second documentary film about the life and work of photographers "What remains", filmed by the same director Stephen Cantor. He received a special premium at the Festival in Atlanta. Then Mann became an honorary doctor of art history. True, an afferenceary incident happened: Sally fell with a dying horse and damaged her back. For two years she was restored after the injury and at the same time did a series of self-portraits.

Later in 2010, they will enter the photo album "flesh and spirit", as well as in it there will be a previously unpublished landscapes, early photos of children and husband suffering from muscle dystrophy since 1994. By the way, his family life with Larry Mann embodied in a separate project "Suprussic Trust", which displays thirty years of their livelihood. We must possess mutual courage to not only fight the incurable ailment, but also to explore it photographically. But Sally Mann is not used to get used, she probably knows why she lives and creates for the sake of whom. And the fans of her creativity remains to wait for new works from a person, openly and honestly looking at the world through the lens of an old camera.

ibigdan scopped the text about the American photographer Sally Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_mann, but then I was glad and removed "under the castle" http://ibigdan.livejournal.com/14041387.html
IMHO, in vain, because the story is elegant.

Basically, Sally photos are black and white.
Colored photos I found only in the project "Body Farm" - the slangie name of the department of the draftsman. Naked burnt corpse (red-black), naked semi-dispersed corpse in corpany stains etc. Such photos will not be stuffed in your journal, curious can go through the link http://sallymann.com/selected-works/body-farm

One of the projects of Sally Mann is called "at twelve", where Sally explores the sexuality of twelve-year-old girls.

If you believe Wikipedia, in the photo 12-year-old girl next to the boy-friend "Ohm of her mother. Salley very much asked the maiden to cuddle closer to a man in order to better arrange a frame, but the girl refused. A few months after photographing the mother of the girl shot this Boy-friend "but. The court said that he was accepted, allegedly, because of the sexual harassment of this Boy-Friend "and to his daughter.

More Sally really liked to photograph your own children.
The only photo with a smile I found is this.

Basically, something like this:

If anyone does not understand, right - a device in the form of a tin cone to cut the head of the head of poultry.

However, Sally has neutral plots.

The cigarette fake, in fact it is a candy depicting a cigarette.

In general, what is called "Gothic": "Because of the lecture, because of the mountains, the intestine, Messa, Hardcore."
And now I will quote the talented journalistic-artistic text, for which I wrote this post:

Album of our childhood
These photos from the other - the summer-orphanage, barefoot, sunny, remaining in memory.
We all come from childhood. Our views, our habits, our globility and the feeling of excellent are formed at the time when we are not even thinking about them. Photographer Sally Mann perfectly remembers his happy childhood, which decided by anything to give and his children.
[...] Adme.ru chose 33 bright pictures from Family Photo Album Sally Mann, soaked in freedom and child carelessness. http://www.adme.ru/fotograf/albom-nashego-detstva-585055/

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lily_munchausen. Left a comment about "33 shots."
Harsh kids. Exactly one and a half smiles on the whole selection. Moreover, one of them is a child next to a deer corpse with a cut neck. Somehow I have a very varying ideas about happy childhood. Well, happiness is all different, Chous. It places are artistically even, some are just fascinating. But as an illustration for mystical thriller, and so that "I gave my children a happy childhood" - there is no such feeling.

I was looking for a long time, and where in the photos of a family album there is still half a smile? Found. At one of the pictures, in the background, there is a caustic girl, not a Sally daughter. And yes, really, we can say that the girl is almost smiling.

She would never have left his native land for a long time and since the 1970s worked only in the south of the United States, creating an unforgettable series of pictures in the portrait genre, landscape and still life. On many workshops shot black and white features appear and architectural objects. Perhaps the most famous works of the Americans are spiritual portraits of loved ones: husband and young children. At times, ambiguous photos brought hard criticism to the author, but one is undoubtedly: a talented woman had an invaluable effect on contemporary art. Starting from the first individual exhibition in the art gallery in Washington, Colombia, in 1977, many connoisseurs of photography began to watch the development of a new genius.

Stepping forward

In the 1970s, Sally studied a variety of genres, an adult and at the same time improving the skill of imprinting life. During this period, numerous landscapes and amazing patterns of architectural photography were seen. In creative search for Sally, it began to combine the elements of still life and portrait in their works. But his genuine calling the American photographer found after her second publication came out in the print - a collection of a photo, which is a whole study of life and the image of girls' thinking. The book was called "at twelve years: portraits of young women" and was published in 1988. In 1984-1994 Sally worked on a series of "close relatives" (1992) focused on portraits of three her children. Toddles at the time were not yet ten years old. Although at first glance it seems that the series is at the court of viewers ordinary, routine life moments (children play, sleep, eat), in every picture there are much more large-scale topics, including death and cultural differences in understanding sexuality.

In the collection "Proud flesh" (2009) Sally Mann translates the camera lens on her husband Larry. The publication presents photos taken over the six-year period. These are frank and sincere images that turn the traditional concepts about the role of sexes and imprinted a man in moments of deep personal vulnerability.

Non-valued pictures

Mann also belongs to two impressive series of landscapes: "far in the south" (2005) and "Motherland". In the collection "What will remain" (2003), she proposes to analyze its mortality observations consisting of five parts. Here is a photo of a decaying corpse of her beloved Grahokund, and pictures of the corner in her garden in Virginia, where the armed faded criminal penetrates the territory of the Mann family and graduated from suicide.

Sally often experimented with color photography, but a black and white photo remains a favorite technique of the wizard, especially using the old equipment. Gradually, she mastered the vintage printing methods: platinum and bromine oil. In the mid-1990s, Sally Mann and other photographers with a tendency to creative experiments fell in love with the so-called wet collodon method - printing, in which the pictures seemed to have acquired the features of painting and sculpture.

Progress

By 2001, Sally had already received a prize from the National Foundation for the Arts Support, was constantly focused on the focus of the Guggenheim Foundation and was awarded the title "The Best Photographer of America" \u200b\u200baccording to the magazine "Time". Two documentary films were removed about her and her work: "Bloody Ties" (1994) and "What will remain" (2007). Both paintings have become laureates of various cinematic premiums, and the project "What will remain" was nominated for the Emmy Prize for the best documentary in 2008. The new mann book is called "without movement: memoirs in photos" (2015). Critics met the work of a recognized master with great approval, and the New York Times newspaper officially included him on the list of bestsellers.

The works that are talking about

It is believed that the best photographers of the world are never associated with any one work or compilation; All their work is embodied in the dynamics of improvement, in the next way, which is not destined to become traveled. Nevertheless, in the extensive work of mann at the moment you can easily single out a sign collection - a monograph, the hotly discussed and now. This series "close relatives", captured the author's children in ordinary, seemingly situations and poses.

In the photo, outgoing images are forever. Here someone from the children described in a dream, someone shows a mosquito bite, someone sleeping after dinner. In the pictures you can observe how every child seeks to quickly overcome the border between childhood and adulthies, as each manifests the innocent cruelty characteristic of gentle age. In these images, adult fears related to the raising of the younger generation are also living, and the comprehensive tenderness and the desire to protect, characteristic of any parent. Here is a half-natured androgin - it is unclear, a girl is or a boy - he stopped in the midst of the elved leaves of the yard. On his body, then there, they can see the stains of the mud. Here are flexible, pale silhouettes with proud ease are moving between heavy, wide-hearted adults. The images are as if reminded of a familiar to the pain of the past, which became infinitely distant and unattainable.

Who is Sally

Of course, it is difficult to judge the work, without touching the personal history of Sally Mann. Children and home care - not the main thing in her life; She primarily creates works of art and only then - enjoys routine affairs as an ordinary woman.

In his youth Sally and her husband were the so-called dirty hippie. Since then, they have some habits have been preserved: growing almost all food with their own hands and not to give much importance to money. Indeed, until the 1980s, Mann's family almost did not earn: a meager income was barely enough to repay taxes. Passing his hand in hand through all the obstacles and difficulties that the life presented them, Larry and Sally Mann became a very strong pair. Both of their iconic compilation and "twelve years") the photographer devoted her husband. While she removed with violent passion, he was engaged in a blacksmithing business and twice was elected to the city council. Shortly before the publication of the most famous monograph Sally, its chosen one received a legal education. Now he works at the office quite close and almost every day comes home for lunch.

Unusual lesson

The best photographers do not cease to develop. This can also be said about Mann, but its development potential has a misconceptionable restriction: she takes pictures only in summer, devoting all other months in the year of printing pictures. On the questions of journalists about why it is impossible to work at another time of the year, Sally shrugs only shrugs and replies that at any time it can fall asleep their children for the performance of lessons or ordinary home duties - it just does not remove it.

Roots

According to Sally Mann itself, an extraordinary vision of the world was getting from his father. Robert Manbon was a gynecologist who participated in the process of the emergence of hundreds of children of Lexington. AT free time He was engaged in gardening and gathered a unique collection of plants from all over the corners globe. In addition, Robert was an atheist and an amateur artist. The unsurpassed flair in relation to everything perverted he passed the inheritance of his daughter. So, for a long time, the famous doctor kept some kind of white-colored figure on the dinner table - while someone from family members did not realize that the "strange sculpture" actually represents a dried dog excrement.

Path to legend

The art of photography Sally studied at Vermont School. In many interviews, the woman claims that the only motivation to study was the opportunity to stay in a dark manifest room alone with his then boyfriend. For two years, Sally studied in Bennington - exactly there she met Larry, who herself made an offer. After studying the year in European countries, the future legendary photographer received a diploma with honors in 1974, and after another three hundred days - supplied the growing list of achievements of the graduation - not by photography, however, but in literature. Up to thirty years, mann in parallel and photographed, and wrote.

Today, an incredible woman and a popular photographer lives and works in hometown Lexington, Virginia, USA. From the date of publication and at the moment, its amazing works serve as an invaluable source of inspiration for people of all creative professions.