Sally Mann

After reading the posts of everyone in the class along with watching video clips of Sally Mann and her work I finally got what the big fuss was about. Her art from what I could see was beautiful and engaging. Her usage of black and white photography is both eerie and able to makes you feel like your looking at your family's family album or that it some how relates to you and your history. In her style it really seems like her photos are frozen in time, I mean look at the camera she uses its a tool used from a forgotten time. The whole controversy with her and her kids is just ridiculous, I think its just the time and age we are living in that perverts the images of a mothers kids into being something that they aren't. Its funny to me that she takes pictures to take pictures, and just doesn't really seem to care about what others will think about them. Over all i like her style, like someone said in comment to Sally Mann's style, maybe i should try utilizing black and white more often to bring about a different aspect of the piece.