Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that Iโve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe Iโm creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.
Sally MannIโm so worried that Iโm going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.
Sally MannI like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
Sally MannI can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.
Sally Mann