Posts Tagged: Proud Flesh


19
Aug 09

Proud Flesh – Sally Mann

Sally Mann:

But that long history of picture-taking didn’t make it any easier to make the Proud Flesh photographs. Rhetorically circumnavigate it any way you will, but exploitation lies at the root of every interaction between photographer and subject, even forty years into it. Larry and I both understand how ethically complex and potent the act of making photographs is, how freighted with issues of honesty, responsibility, power, and complicity, and how so many good images come at the expense of the sitter, in one way or another.

via Sally Mann: Proud Flesh – Conscientious.

Definitely interested in getting my hands on the monograph