A really nice article in the New York Times on Sally Mann.
She talks for the first time about the personal side of the controversy over her work with her children (nude)--how all sorts of creepers came out of the woodwork, one to the point where she kept a photo of the nut with her to see if she might see him on the street. She basically acknowledges that some of the critics of her work were right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/ma...-exposure.html
For my part I've always thought her argument that there was nothing especially erotic etc about her work was a sort of hippie-chick view of the world--wanting it to be something other than it is. She appears to see that now. There's also the complicating factor that she became well known precisely because of this controversial work--and that controversy is the very reason we are reading this New York Times article all these years later.
In many ways sort of the anti-Jock Sturges despite the similarity of the controversy (she seems genuine while Jock strikes me as a major bullshitter, cult-of-personality type; her claims of the innocence of the photos seems about right contrasted with Sturge's history of sex with minors, etc).
The article is taken from a book by Mann that is coming out in May. Well worth a read and the presentation by the New York Times is excellent.
--Darin
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