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Sally Mann
Sally Mann
American Photographer
Born: May 1, 1951
Good Just Me Picture Time You
Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. Sally Mann
Nature Photography Changed Everybody Advent Camera Hand Whole
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
Life Death Heart Age Doctor Father Think Changed Tooth Attack He Dropped Nail Dead Obviously Course Became His Patients Then Fascinated Fought Medical
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
Me Remember Master About Pound Had Written Anything Ask Thesis
I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. Sally Mann
Guess Willingness Audacity Certain
I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. Sally Mann
Work Time Home Stay Never Leave Just Mean
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
Life You Chapter See Look Coming Get Artist Your Last
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
Morning Vegetables Every Had Takers Baked Healthful Bread Grew Grand Packed Butter Peanuts
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life. Sally Mann
Life Picture Real Life Photo Detail Composing Similar Something Scene Read Becomes Real Very
I never read about photography. Sally Mann
Photography About Never Read
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. Sally Mann
Me Will Reading Everyone Evocative Photograph Visual Would Scene Fact Take Like Look Particularly Dodging Verbal Does Always Passage Been Linked Maybe In Fact Burning Sensibilities While Notes Even Two Imagine
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night. Sally Mann
Finished Sleeping Books Distraction Some Miracle More Fact Through Weird Devoured Am Due Person Loved Far Who Night
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. Sally Mann
Time People Care Able About Take Pictures Look Places
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
Work Service Photography Increasingly Photographed See About Something Rather Through Idea Feel Like Looks How Doing Than Trying Just Explore
Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. Sally Mann
Sad Death Alive More Feel Also Make Makes Us
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well. Sally Mann
Mother Every Pretty Instinct Know Effectively Report Did Done Note Card Save
I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time. Sally Mann
Beautiful Death Time Try Resonant Some Writ Take Like Make Same Same Time Commonplace Large Universally
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up. Sally Mann
Joy See Seeing Some About Cases Taking Opening Pictures Like Looked Were Up Just Anything Them Fun Shows
I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them. Sally Mann
Love Think Scare Operation Up Them Media
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter. Sally Mann
Personality Think About Fundamental Thing
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. Sally Mann
Good Me Insecurity Photographer Pretty Writer Good Writer Feel Vulnerable Makes Always Person Regular Regular Person Pervasive Whose
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living. Sally Mann
Photography Writing Living Had Over Make Chose
I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards. Sally Mann
Great Family People Remember Thought Our Out Would Hazards Remember When Knew Knock Course Because Came Just Door Us Album

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