I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do. Sally Mann More Quotes by Sally Mann More Quotes From Sally Mann The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. Sally Mann camera changed nature photography I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it. Sally Mann picture single sky blue Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3. Sally Mann mistakes parents morning school It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated. Sally Mann picture view you work I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess. Sally Mann time long father death At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients. Sally Mann age heart life death I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it. Sally Mann master anything me remember I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. Sally Mann guess willingness audacity certain I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. Sally Mann vivid imagination Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine. Sally Mann picture good go me I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me. Sally Mann thought good me emotional Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul. Sally Mann talk go living soul I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic. Sally Mann pictures started just love You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on. Sally Mann picture start you important I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. Sally Mann never work home time I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64. Sally Mann down know you want When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter. Sally Mann look you artist life It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one. Sally Mann good you confidence fear When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone. Sally Mann farm phone electricity water I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom. Sally Mann every vegetables bread morning
