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 MannEvery image is in some way a โportrait,โ not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.
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 Mann