Sally Mann, Easter Dress Over twenty years ago, Sally Mann published Immediate Family (Aperture), a book of photographs of her children playing on their family farm in Virginia, which was called "disturbing" by the New York Times and "degenerate" by the Wall Street Journal. The children were often nude, as the secluded farm was miles away from strangers, and the children's poses, innocent to her eyes, deeply disturbed many who saw them. She said she and her children, collaborators, were trying t...
Sally Mann, Easter Dress Over twenty years ago, Sally Mann published Immediate Family (Aperture), a book of photographs of her children playing on their family farm in Virginia, which was called "disturbing" by the New York Times and "degenerate" by the Wall Street Journal. The children were often nude, as the secluded farm was miles away from strangers, and the children's poses, innocent to her eyes, deeply disturbed many who saw them. She said she and her children, collaborators, were trying t...
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