Since this week we were talking about female artists, I decided to blog about Sally Mann, who is a photographer. One of the things she is known for is her photographs of her three children, Emmet, Jessie, and Virginia, that reveal what is meant by growing up. There was a controversy of this becuase there was accusations of child pornography. Mann said that she was just taking pictures of what she saw though the eyes of a mother. She also photographed southern landscapes. In the mid 1970s she had her first one-woman exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC. This exhibition contained pictures of the construction of the Lew Law Library.
A collection of her work, What Remains, features dreams or nightmare like images made with rustic scenes in pictorialist styles, some of which include dead and decaying human bodies.
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