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Posts: 10,238 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dublin, TX, Real First Name: Stovall Camera: Leica M8/Leica X1/Canon 1DsMkIII/Canon 5DMkII/Leica M7/Leicaflex SL2/Ricoh GR-DIII Can Others Edit My Photos: No iTrader Rating: 17  LIKES Received: 1 LIKES Given: 0 | Sally Mann: What Remains -
05-17-2010, 12:13 PM
Finished Sally Mann's 'What Remains' for a second time. I had not cared for her early work but here she taps deep into the psyche. Death and time acting on the dead is the common theme. One section is on she reclaiming the bones of her dead gray hound (think Stan Breakage's 'Sirius') another a visit to a forensic farm ...where bodies are exposed for study, the battle field at Antietam, and the location on her property where an armed fugitive died. It is her consummate skill with the collodion process which gives this body of work its aetherial power and darkness. This a work to be returned many times and makes great demand on the viewer. There are no pretty pictures but rather thoughtful ones. What Remains shown at the Corcoran
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