If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.
Sally MannThere are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.
Sally MannThe earth doesnโt care where death occurs. ...Itโs the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates deathโs memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.
Sally MannAs an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.
Sally MannAs 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