There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.
Sally MannIt is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
Sally MannMy main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.
Sally MannThere is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.
Sally MannSome of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.
Sally Mann