What remains
By: Sally Mann.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Mann, Sally, -- 1951-; Photography, Artistic
Description: "Photographer Sally Mann has produced a new body of work on the one subject that affects us all. In What Remains, a five-part meditation on mortality, Mann focuses her lens on the ineffable divide between body and soul, the means by which life takes leave of this earth, and the manner in which it rejoins it. Mann's new photographs are by turns shocking and sublime. An armed fugitive is hunted down by police. She photographs the scars left on her property after the incident. A series of brooding, otherworldly landscapes made at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam is followed by a group of close-up portraits of Mann's own children, floating in the inky black atmosphere of the nineteenth-century ambrotype; another series taken at a forensics study site offers an unflinching look at the process of decomposition, as do images of a beloved pet greyhound - long since departed. Made with the collodion process, using glass plates, the resulting images are at once painterly, sculptural, and photographic."--Jacket.