Sally Mann

Sally Mann is a photographer, but not one who takes photographs for news stories or the average family portrait. Her work has a greater level of depth to it. Her favorite element to incorporate into her pictures is ambiguity. Sometimes it's hard to tell what your looking at in one of her photographs, and it could turn out to just be a dog bone. She takes pictures of a lot of everyday objects, and she does collections of them. For example, she did a series on the dogbones, using different bones and techniques to develop the photographs. In regard to her art, she is pretty down to earth. She says she just does it for fun, even though critics will try to dig deeper than she intends. To me, her pictures look like antiques. Her portraits of her children look like they came out of a fantasy.