Sally Mann...not the usual

jtk · Aug 21, 2019

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs...south&fr=yhs-omr-001&hspart=omr&hsimp=yhs-001

jtk · Aug 21, 2019

Peter Schrager · Aug 21, 2019

Love sally..lots of angst in her photos

faberryman · Aug 21, 2019

I generally like Sally Mann's work, but the images linked to leave me flat.

ann · Aug 21, 2019

She has been working on this for some time

May not be my thing but I admire her stretching herself artistically as this is not an easy fear at least imho

warden · Aug 21, 2019

ann said:
She has been working on this for some time

May not be my thing but I admire her stretching herself artistically as this is not an easy fear at least imho

I agree, and I think fearlessness and a willingness to change have served her well in her career.

BradS · Aug 21, 2019

Wow...just wow. Is hi sreally the same Sally Mann ?
The one who is famous (or infamous for some) for her intimate, portraiture?
This stuff looks amateur-ish compared to that Sally Mann' work.

Maybe this is her "New Coke" ?

chip j · Aug 21, 2019

ho-hum

BrianShaw · Aug 21, 2019

IDK... some is interesting; some is not. In general, though... nothing very exciting or “artistic “.

awty · Aug 21, 2019

Beautiful works, soft, alluring and unpretentious. They just gently entice you into a dream, like the last works of Monet's. She will always be a class above the rest.

BrianShaw · Aug 21, 2019

awty said:
Beautiful works, soft, alluring and unpretentious. They just gently entice you into a dream, like the last works of Monet's. She will always be a class above the rest.

I’ll gladly take another look with his in mind!

ann · Aug 21, 2019

BradS said:
Wow...just wow. Is hi sreally the same Sally Mann ?
The one who is famous (or infamous for some) for her intimate, portraiture?
This stuff looks amateur-ish compared to that Sally Mann' work.

Maybe this is her "New Coke" ?

Why be rude. Drugs have=nothing to do with the work. She has been doing a+lot of wt/plate work for years.

You don’t have=to like the work and not understand previous projects but be respectful

warden · Aug 21, 2019

A few years back I walked a show of Sally Mann's images detailing Cy Twombly's studio. The images didn't look like all that much online, but in person (large format, large prints, lots of light radiation) they were lovely and touching. Don't know if this series would be the same or not, but I'd travel to see them just in case.

Edit: Oh how interesting, I just learned that the show I attended was produced with a digital camera rather than film. She's used film and large cameras forever so I just assumed. Anyway the prints were just lovely.

Peter Schrager · Aug 21, 2019

I think you have take the pictures as a group
National Gallery published a great book of Sally's and it's an incredible deal...collectors item...

BradS · Aug 21, 2019

ann said:
Why be rude. Drugs have=nothing to do with the work. She has been doing a+lot of wt/plate work for years.

You don’t have=to like the work and not understand previous projects but be respectful

Not sure what you found to be rude or disrespectful.
I have the utmost respect for the artist...but this is very far from her best work in my opinion.
Drugs? Please google "New Coke"..(hint: it was a coca-cola product that failed).
A boring composition done on wet plate is still a boring composition.

nmp · Aug 21, 2019

Saw many of these at her Thousand Crossings exhibition at the National Gallery. Also had her older images that she has been (in)famous for. Check this video that came out during the show:

nmp · Aug 21, 2019

Here's an another on her:

and this one with her explaining her process:

https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/mann-colldion.html

timmct · Aug 21, 2019

Thanks for that Niranjan.

I must say that I am in accord with the, "Clear language; clear thought." dictum; in regard to people who actually know what it is they're about, and Sally Mann seems pretty clear on that. I knew that she was well known for her employment of the wet process, collodion, negatives from larger plates. It was good to see her own, chosen, "process". Seems a bit messy, but she makes it work for her.

Her work seems rooted in an almost forgotten past...yet it's quite up to date: certainly modern enough to keep our current curators excited in their offices and at cocktail parties.

I wonder if anyone, currently, is doing Eric Satie'esque piano work in an admirable and new, modern way? Her stuff is moody and ethereal at the same time, yet meaningful. Even if you don't happen to like her work...it still holds some wonder.

It's like she's running a model -T at the Indie 500 and we are all spellbound by what she is up to; we know she won't win but...she may be more interesting than the actual winner.

ann · Aug 22, 2019

BradS said:
Not sure what you found to be rude or disrespectful.
I have the utmost respect for the artist...but this is very far from her best work in my opinion.
Drugs? Please google "New Coke"..(hint: it was a coca-cola product that failed).
A boring composition done on wet plate is still a boring composition.

Sorry I thought you meant the drug coke
I am from Atlanta and I do remember the new coke but since I don’t drink any type of soda that didn’t click

Peter Schrager · Aug 22, 2019

if art is meant to provoke reactions; which it certainly has done on this thread about Sally then she already succeeded

Peter Schrager · Aug 22, 2019

jawarden said:
A few years back I walked a show of Sally Mann's images detailing Cy Twombly's studio. The images didn't look like all that much online, but in person (large format, large prints, lots of light radiation) they were lovely and touching. Don't know if this series would be the same or not, but I'd travel to see them just in case.

Edit: Oh how interesting, I just learned that the show I attended was produced with a digital camera rather than film. She's used film and large cameras forever so I just assumed. Anyway the prints were just lovely.

Yes Sally used digital for that series. You realize she was good friends with Cy Twombly? It was a homage to a good friend

warden · Aug 22, 2019

Peter Schrager said:
Yes Sally used digital for that series. You realize she was good friends with Cy Twombly? It was a homage to a good friend

Yes of course, it's why I was there. The show was small but the work was very sweet - two friends from the same southern place that made special things.

jtk · Aug 22, 2019

ann said:
Why be rude. Drugs have=nothing to do with the work. She has been doing a+lot of wt/plate work for years.

You don’t have=to like the work and not understand previous projects but be respectful

Yes! The notion that a photographer who explores mixed approaches is somehow lacking, or is employing a marketing game (new coke) bizarre...cynical...

BradS · Aug 22, 2019

jtk said:
Yes! The notion that a photographer who explores mixed approaches is somehow lacking, or is employing a marketing game (new coke) bizarre...cynical...

Good grief man, grow up! Being an artist is not like an eight year old playing soccer. You don't get a trophy just for showing up.
You don't get a trophy for trying something new/different. You must produce the good stuff and even then it often isn't recognized.
In fact it is rare that an artist - musician, photographer, novelist, whatever....is even able to support themselves.
Sally Mann is one of the greats. She's done sensitive, insightful, sublime and touching work. This isn't it though. No big deal...

pentaxuser · Aug 22, 2019

As a Brit, I never assumed for a minute that BradS was suggesting in a literal sense that she had taken drugs. Simply that the style of pictures represent such a departure from her "norm" that it suggests a "way out" approach. I have heard the expression many times in Britain "on wacky backy". In the literal sense this means that the person was smoking marijuana but looking at the meaning of this phrase under Collins Dictionary it opens with the words "British humorous" and this sums up its meaning and its flavour in Britain

We have British "moles" on the West Coast and BradS has just blown his cover
This kind of mole belongs to John Lecarre and is not "the gentlemen in black velvet" to whom the Jacobites refer in respect of King William of Orange's accident

And to think, DT wants a trade agreement with the likes of us

pentaxuser

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