Public/Private Tensions in the Photography of Sally Mann
@article{Parsons2008PublicPrivateTI,
title={Public/Private Tensions in the Photography of Sally Mann},
author={Sarah Parsons},
journal={History of Photography},
year={2008},
volume={32},
pages={123 - 136},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:194099344}
}This article examines the circulation of Sally Mann's pictures of her children, which were exhibited and published in 1992 under the title Immediate Family. Most of the Immediate Family photographs were made at the Manns' rustic summer house in a wild, isolated area, not far from their home in Lexington, Virginia. The children are often naked or nearly naked, and they are variously dirty, injured, confrontational and flirtatious. Strong and divergent responses to the Immediate Family…
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