does anyone know what film sally mann used for her color landscapes of mexico?
like these?
what color film did sally mann use for her mexican landscapes?
does anyone know what film sally mann used for her color landscapes of mexico?
like these?
Well I know she uses an old beat-up 8x10.
Looks like a reversal film to me IMO.
"I would like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do..."
Seeing the shots for the first time makes me wonder if you're asking so that you can avoid ever using it?
Lachlan.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky
Actually quite the opposite, I love the Colorado and dreamyness of it all, how surreal it isOriginally Posted by Lachlan 717
Fair enough.
Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to produce images this crap. However, On ne discute ni des goûts, ni des couleurs...
Lachlan.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky
I don't understand why you're so against the images? Just because they're not techniquely perfect? She wasn't named Americas best photographer for no reason
I like her images fine but she is hardly America's best photographer even if such a pronouncement was credible instead of being complete bullshit. I respect her and her work but fawning over her considered and calculated sloppiness seems at least as vapid as whatever the dogged but boring perfectionists waste their time doing....
As for which film, I have no idea but suspect it would be color neg and some really beat-up, scratched and funky old Brass lenses. The kind that Eddie and Galli drop and drive their cars over. She probably buys a dozen mint ones and then sits around sandpapering the glass to get that just ever so perfect degradation.
If that's the case, based on the two images posted, I'd hate to see what America's second best photographer comes up with.
It isn't my cup of tea either but I respect what she apparently was trying to do and what the images are intended to portray.
"Working with color film, Mann focused her camera on the fragmented pyramids, palaces and stelae which appeared through the haze of the sweltering heat. In her photographs, we feel the oppressive humidity as we wander through dense foliage stumbling upon temples now inhabited by the forest. Through muted colors and an antique camera lens, Sally Mann has captured the energy of the Mayan culture which vanished more than two thousand years ago. Whether standing alone along a shrinking shoreline or next to a tree branch growing through the foundation of a Mayan pyramid, one is
constantly aware of nature's power to consume years of history, reclaiming places of worship, commerce and ambition. Through Mann's images, we witness the transformation of a place once teeming with human presence into an area resonating with ancient history."
http://www.edelmangallery.com/archive20.htm
I haven't liked any of her work from "What Remains" forward. To me she went off the deep end with that book and hasn't resurfaced. But then there are many photographers whose work I don't personally care for but who I nevertheless respect. She's one of them.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
Finally some one with sense and respect!
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