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 A Dialogue Between Steven Cantor & Sally Mann QUESTION: The two of you began working together back in 1990 when Steven documented the making of the “Immediate Family” series, Sally’s incredibly intimate and candid portrayal of family life. The resulting short film, “Blood Ties”, was nominated for an Academy Award. Sally, what about Steven, at that early stage in his career, made you comfortable with the idea o… INTERVIEW: “A Dialogue Between Steven Cantor & Sally Mann” (2004)  By Dana Cox Sally Mann has been quoted as saying, “Art’s role… is almost nefarious. It’s to challenge expectation. To push a little bit, whether that’s aesthetically, politically, or culturally (McQuaid, p.1).” Sally Mann is an artist who became well-known for the controversial photographs of her three children, Jessie, Emmet, and Virginia. She was born in 1951 in West Virginia and still lives there with her husba…  Sally Mann’s Immediate Family: The Unflinching and Unafraid Childhood By Valerie Osbourn, October 27, 2006 In the fall of 1992, a traveling exhibit opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The collection was called “Immediate Family”, and it was by a young and lesser known photographer by the name of Sally Mann. The images, taken from 1984 to 1991 detailed the complex childhoods of her three children; Emm… SALLY MANN: “Sally Mann’s Immediate Family – The Unflinching and Unafraid Childhood” (2006)  … the kind of world I’d been striving to create in prose: a cloistered feminine world, poised between omnipotence and frustration, mercilessly spied on by an unseen viewer. I’m not the only novelist who responds to Sally Mann’s work: Ann Beattie wrote the introduction to Mann’s second book, At Twelve. It’s not surprising. The enchanted time Mann creates is like the writer’s mind made visible, the childish mind t… | ||||||||||||||
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