SALLY MANN: “Sally Mann”

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…t always willing sitters, but were very supportive of Immediate Family’s publication. Today, all three children remain supportive of their mother’s art and proud of the photographs that feature them as the prominent subjects. Jesse at 5 seems to be the quintessential Sally Mann photograph. The photograph is composed with three girls in a straight line, with Jesse at the center. The two girls on either side of Jesse are wearing clothes and seem pu…

SALLY MANN: “Sally Mann”

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

…orence, in the words of a contemporary, “numbers of profane paintings and sculptures, many of them the work of great masters, with books, lutes and collections of love songs” (Freedberg 1989: 348), just as Senator Jesse Helms and his colleagues in the United States Senate have been as eager to limit pornography on the Internet as to cut money from the National Endowment for the Arts to punish it for sponsoring the work of photographer…

THEORY: "Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture" (1999)

ROBERT ADAMS: “One Life – Several Landscapes: An Appreciation of Robert Adams” (1996)

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…se wise, gentle old people. Handed on up the chain with great warmth and conviction, until it reached the executive committee (composed no doubt of a few road-weary senators, governmental flacks and with the eminence grise of Jesse Helms blathering in the background.) And then… embarrassed confusion would reign, for the committee to it’s relief, after reviewing Adams and his work would decide that: first, the man’s simply not ol…

ROBERT ADAMS: “One Life – Several Landscapes: An Appreciation of Robert Adams” (1996)

WEEGEE: “Weegee and the Jewish Question” (1997)

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Weegee and the Jewish Question By David Serlin and Jesse Lerner Weegee (né Usher Fellig) is best known for his dystopic urban photographs, principally those images made in New York as a free-lance photojournalist in the years prior to the end of World War II. But these photographs represent only a portion of his work, a vast corpus including satirical city symphonies like Hollywood: Land of the Zombies; his “collaborations with Picasso&#…

WEEGEE: “Weegee and the Jewish Question” (1997)