Sally Mann Quotes

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As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

Sally Mann

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

Sally Mann

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.

Sally Mann

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

Sally Mann

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann

Sally Mann

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Born: May 1, 1951 (age 74)

Bio: Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.

Known for:

Immediate Family (1992)
At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988)
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015)
Deep South (2005)
Still Time (1994)

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