Sally Mann
What Remains

A film by Steven Cantor | 2005

United States
en
en
80'

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

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Synopsis

For Sally Mann, life and work are one and the same. The American photographer has always sought beauty in her everyday life. Armed with her camera, she immortalised her loved ones in graceful portraits and landscapes of the American South, where romance mingles with the scars of history. In this documentary from the early 2000s, Sally Mann is just over fifty years old. Already world-famous, she continues to push her photographic practice ever further. In the privacy of her farm in Virginia, surrounded by her family and animals, she gives us an insight into her creative process and talks about her obsessions, in particular her love of death and decomposing bodies.

What you will find in this film

An icon of American photography • the beauty of everyday life • the meeting of intimate and artistic life • a wedding portrait • the magic of the landscapes of the southern United States • landscapes marked by history • the camera • the wet collodion process • the beauty of uncertainty and technical errors

Keywords

Nature & Landscape Portrait & Aesthetics Analogue Photography The Artist at Work

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is that the things that are close to you are the things that you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you’re not gonna make good art.

Sally Mann Photographer

It’s always been my philosophy to try and make art out of the everyday and the ordinary.

Sally Mann Photographer

For me the 'local' has two parts : my family and the land. They give me comfort in times of failure and of course they are the wellspring and inspiration for all my work. l'inspiration de tout mon travail.

Sally Mann Photographer

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Further exploration

Sally Mann: Mille et un Passages ; Éditions Xavier Barral ; 2019
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings ; Harry N. Abrams ; 2018
Sally Mann, Proud Flesh, Gagosian & Aperture, 2009
Sally Mann, Deep South, Bulfinch Press, 2005
Sally Mann, What Remains, Bullfinch Press, 2003
Sally Mann, Immediate Family, Aperture 1992

Sally Mann's website

A beautiful text by Sally Mann on her long-term project with her husband

Leafing through the book DEEP SOUTH by Sally Mann

Leafing throuch the bokk IMMEDIATE FAMILY by Sally Mann