What do you think about the ways in which Mann has used her children in her work?

Web Field Trip – Sally Mann

Please go to Art 21. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (https://art21.org/artist/sally-mann/) Find Sally Mann and read her biography. Other links will lead you to slideshows and interviews with the artist. Then watch the video clips before answering the following discussion questions:

1.What do you think about the ways in which Mann has used her children in her work? (Consider photographic technique, lighting, framing, focus, meaning, and/or ethics…)

2. How/why are Mann’s photographs of her children different from typical family photo albums? (Consider photographic technique, lighting, framing, focus, meaning, and/or ethics…)

Please answer with a paragraph for each question explaining why. Thanks

Supplemental sources:

Smithsonian Magazine article

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/model-family-76926283/?no-ist=Links to an external site.

NY Times article

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D61E38F934A1575AC0A964958260 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.