Assignment 2

Sally Mann

I have chosen to emulate for this assignment, Sally Mann. I admire her work very much. This photographer is best known for her black and white work which include her children. Her photography has this kind of dreamy, soft and rustic look to it, which makes it very appealing to the eye. She tends to focus on a main subject and have it brighter than the other subjects and the rest of the image. Her images very well compliment shallow

depth of field through in-focus and out-of-focus subjects. The people in her images, normally children, have a similar attitude. One of innocence, naiveness and carelessness. Although I used one image with a child in it to emulate one of her photographs, I used my mother for the other 4. The reason for that being I wanted to use her idea and technique of photographing with similar attitudes, but have it be an older person who you know has lived and passed that innocent, naive and careless faze. It portrays a bit of the innocence, naiveness and carelessness that normal children have through a more "experienced in life" person.