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Sally Mann
Profession : Photographer
Birth : May 1, 1951
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann
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
Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
Sally Mann
I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
Sally Mann
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
Sally Mann
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
Sally Mann
I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
Sally Mann
Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
Sally Mann
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
Sally Mann
If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
Sally Mann
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
Sally Mann
Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
Sally Mann
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
I couldn't deal with a normal life.
Sally Mann
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
I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
Sally Mann
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
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
Sally Mann
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