Sally Mann is an American photographer that worked mainly through the medium of black and white. In her early works she photographed her three children. It was the photos of her children published in Immediate Family that catapulted her to fame. Her work was very decisive, many loved it, more criticized or censored but importantly thousands viewed it.
Throughout her career she used an 8x10 bellow camera that was over a hundred years old. In the mid 1990s she progressed from photographing her children to the landscape. She decided to use Collodion, a throwback to old school photography. She took photos of old battle scenes the decaying remains of her dog Eva and human bodies taken at a Federal forensic Anthropology Center.
Mann has three children Emmett a former Peace Corp member, Jessie an artist and Virginia a student of Law. Her husband Larry is a lawyer who unfortunately suffers from muscular dystrophy. Mann released a book of photographs documenting the evolution of his disease.
Information from in class film and from Wikipedia.
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