Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:59 PM 6/14/03 -0400, bdcolen wrote: >I happen to believe that Sally Mann's photos >of her children are in the later category - and I consider her public >exhibiting of, and publication of those photos to be extremely >exploitive. BD I worked through college for Betty Munger Mann, the "Dragon Lady" or "Madame X", at the Washington & Lee University Bookstore. I've known Sally since she was a teen-ager. I know her husband, Larry Mann, as well, as he was a class or two ahead of me at the University and we have, on rare occasions, cases together, the both of us being attorneys. Sally is a "shock" artist. She seems to adhere to the viewpoint that true art must cause us to raise our hackles. I can tell you tales about her dealings with the populace of the City of Lexington, VA, and the demands she made upon its good taste! And then there is the problem over the ownership of the Miley plates which, rather mysteriously, were left to Washington & Lee but, a year later, appeared in her ownersnip without any known payment ... Sally is hardly my favorite photographer. She is a killer dark-room tech but her own pictures are, well, either shocking in content or are simply insipid. She is very nice, of course, in person, though she appears to be quite shallow. Marc msmall@infionlinei.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html