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Focus image “Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia

Initial semiotic reading and resulting questions Who are the children? Who is Sally Mann Significance of the date and location Techniques employed in creating the image How does this image compare to the rest of the collection. Who is Sally Mann? Early Life… Birth place Family background

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Focus image “Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia

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  1. Initial semiotic reading and resulting questions • Who are the children? • Who is Sally Mann • Significance of the date and location • Techniques employed in creating the image • How does this image compare to the rest of the collection • Who is Sally Mann? • Early Life… • Birth place • Family background • Education • Professional career • Awards/acknowledgments . • Publications • The Immediate Family: Controversial? • Significance of husband, Larry? • How natural/staged are the images? • Mann’s artistic intent? • Allegations of indecency • Valerie Osbourn - American Suburb X • “ When Aperture published ‘immdiate family’’, mom and dad sat us down, and we had a family meeting. They asked, ‘are you going to be ok with this?” Focus image “Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia • Photographic Techniques: • The Collodion process: • Complications • History” • Advantages. The use of children in photographic art: Sally Mann. Immoral Mother? So the Story Goes (2006) “concerns included the sale of such provocative works; gendered assumptions about a mothers role as protector; and the possibility that these pictures might prompt inappropriate actions” Similar cases of Controversial Photography: Robert Mapplethorpe + Jock Sturges Artistic Themes: Analysis of a number of images from the Immediate Family collection - distinguishing themes present in the work from visual analysis and the effect of titles. Interview at “Art 21 - Mann’s personal experiences with the technique • Additional posts: • Influences: • American Civil War photographers; Alexander Gardener, Mathew Brady • Smithonion magazine - Julia Margaret Cameron & Eugene Atget • The Mann Children Now - • How the children feel now • Their Careers • Attitudes to their mother Death Age Innocence Theoretical analysis • Source references • Osbourn, Valerie 2006. SALLY MANN:Sally Mann’s Immediate Family: The Unflinching and Unafraid Childhood (2006) http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-sally-manns-immediate-family.html • Author unknown. Dog Bone Prints @ http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/clip3.html Larry Mann The Immediate Family Dedication • Applied theory • Deconstruction and interpretation of images: • Identification of “binary oppositions” in Mann’s work • Inertextual interpretation of images • Identification of themes: • Purity - innocence - beauty - place • Key research source - American Suburb X “Sally Mann’s Immediate Family: The Unafraid and Unflinching Childhood” 2006 • Structuralism/Post-Structuralism/Intertextuality. • Levi - strauss • Roland Barthes • Daniel Chandler • Julia Kristeva Interpretation of themes - Continued application of theoretical concepts and Titles Barthes term of “Anchorage” recognized in Mann’s work. How the perception of the image is controlled (to a degree) by the title that accompanies it. Mann’s desired look/aesthetic for her images -My most successful pictures can show you which ones think work the best are the ones that just look like they were taken with a 35 millimeter.

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