Art Work by Sally Mann

Sally Mann has written another book about photography and being an artist and being creative.

Once called “America’s Best Photographer” Time Magazine (2001) the same magazine where some of my photos of a horrific early-days high-school shooting had been published a quarter century earlier, Sally Mann was and continues to be one of the great inspirations to my own work.

Always controversial married at 19 to a man who would be diagnosed with a life-changing disease Mann had three children while living on property in rural Tennessee. Living in poverty she shot and produced most of her world-famous artwork using wet-plate technology dating back to the American Civil War.

For anyone creating anything Sally Mann is a wise, occasionally profane, fearless companion.

If you consider yourself a photographer and maybe even have dreams of becoming an artist yourself you’d could have no better mentor than Sally Mann to keep you company on your journey.