It is believed that childhood - a wonderful time in the life of any person. Thesis questionable. Looking back, most come to the conclusion that nothing osobo0 pleasant at the tender age with you is not happening. Clothes did not fit, do not dream of age, purchased "with a stock" shoes and crooked bangs trimmed. The time between childhood and adolescence is stretched over months and years. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find a decent application. It consists of other people's recommendations, ideas and comments that foster a deep consciousness of his own worthlessness.
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The next question is whether the imperfection of their charm. At a time when we are clearly beginning to realize defectiveness of its recent past, can we see the painful reality that beautiful? work of American photographer Sally Mann seem affirmative answer to the question. In the preface to an album in 1995, she writes: "When we look at the image, the paradox is this. We see beauty and we see the dark side of things. Beauty is linked with sadness.
Theoretically, Sally Mann had to repeat the fate of an ordinary American housewife. She was born and raised in Lexington - a small town in Virginia. In 1975, at age 24, she graduated from Hollins College. Typically, a stable American institution with a good track record and nearly 160-year history. Marriage, children, measured life in his native city. All like everyone else. Except for one thing: pictures.
early photographic work of Sally Mann (Portrait of a Woman ") were made in 1976-1977. That is, immediately after graduation and the birth of three children. All the most famous series of photographs and Sally Mann ( "The Twelve", "The closest family") - is the image of her own children. Today the work of Sally Mann is stored in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of the Metropolitan, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and many other worthy art collections.
Look at Sally Mann childhood was so unexpected that it immediately canonised professional provocateurs from the photos. and with an exciting erotic overtones. No collection on sexuality in the photos is not without its images. In fact, deliberate eroticism of her characters - it is rather our way of perceiving reality. than property frames Sally Mann.
The irony of his view of everyday life is reminiscent of another legendary inhabitant of one-storey America - Grace Metalius. The last (also incidentally, a mother of three children) in 1956, aged 32, wrote a novel "Peyton Place", which overturned all ideas of a quiet respectable life American West.
And Grace Metalius stories, and photos of Sally Mann brings one very characteristic feature. They do not artificially devised provocative themes and motifs. No need to call the demons of the dark side of things: they have long inhabited a pink facade of the provincial houses, children's heads. The fact that the viewer may seem cynical and epatage, in fact is a consequence of rigid observation. Sally Mann's genius - the ability to perceive the dramatic in the usual facts of everyday life.
Therefore, Sally Mann photographs properly be attributed not to the "erotic", and especially not to the "pornographic" images. in fact, this domestic sketches, naturalness scary stories to a greater extent than the well thought-out composition and frame.
The photographs Sally Mann is much more traditional than it may seem at first glance. All of her shots - this appeal to traditional values. Even if these values become alarming forms. Family, awkward childhood, parent unrequited love. Despite permanent vicissitude of these concepts, they nevertheless remain fundamental in the framework once and forever defined coordinate system.
This is one reason, which allows to speak about the nature of Victorian photographs Sally Mann. Family. With a capital letter. Such as it may be only in old-fashioned novels and yellowed photos half-forgotten relatives. habit of identifying your own "I" with unshakable familial clan, whose refusal to think in terms of "WE" is always a major sacrilege. "Location is crucial. Time - summer. This can be any summer. But in the present case - my house, but the people here - my family "- the book begins with the words" immediate family ", published in 1992.
So scary, mixed with intimacy incest brothers and sisters - it is cultivated virtue, not sin. The only way to preserve the integrity of pristine family unity. This is one of those principles, in which the victim without hesitation could bring the child's innocence, if such exist in nature.
Another "Victorian" feature photographs Sally Mann - is the technique shooting. All her pictures made format 8x10 camera. Luggage old. It was collected at a time when Queen Victoria herself was a young mother. Search the hero and the nature replaces the process of silver and platinum printing. All photographs are printed in her own studio in Lexington. Defocused image Sally Mann does. Clear and precise shot - this is the same principle recognizable as the once and for all its value.
Children grow up. Does this adult wiser? Hardly. The only lesson that they can learn in this case is as follows: childhood - a disease that eventually passes.
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Sad Beauty - Sally Mann
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