Sally Mann says her black photos appear to be “problematic” in hindsight
In her new memoir artworkphotographer Sally Mann wrote that she now has reservations about a series featuring black people and reveals that she has even removed some of the works from the 2018 National Art Exhibition because of these concerns.
For the series titled “Man,” and filmed between 2004 and 2018, Mann shot images of black people, and she responded to paid modeling conferences distributed by all men and women colleges in Virginia. Many of the resulting images are close-ups of hands, face, neck, back, etc.
Mann has previously written that the series grew up based on his own experience growing up in quarantine Virginia. “I’ve always seen it, but I don’t see black people who live in white, mow grass, raise or wait for work in the shadow of the big court tree,” she wrote in a 2015 book. Stay still.
But now, a decade later, Mann returns these images with a greater self-criticality, describing them as “problematic.”
“In terms of the pictures I took for men, I know that my life experiences are not the experiences of my subjects, but also problems with issues around race,” Mann wrote. artwork. “In hindsight, either of you might have told me that it is naive, serious (you are right: Fool) Self, it’s not just a problem. You will know that those who have been marginalized in history would rather tell their own stories than explain them through their white eyes and thoughts. You could have seen more clearly than I did that my attempt to solve this problem would make historical white privilege and racism for centuries, and any work I did seemed to be both invasive and trivial. ”
Additionally, she wrote in another section: “between 2004 and 2018, I told the wrong story, or at the wrong time, even if I told it as correctly as possible.”
Mann wrote that she began to re-look as a work in 2017 after the controversy at the Whitney Biennale, where Dana Schutz exhibited paintings of Emmett Till’s open coffin funeral and was keenly condemned and demanded the removal of the work. The painting remains in sight at the end of the show, even though many repeatedly claim that the subject is not a topic representing the white painter.
Mann wrote that she found Schutz’s controversy to be “inspiring, but also shocking.” It allowed her to take 14 “Man” photos from her 2018 National Art Show, leaving only four images from the series.
according to New York Times Profile published this week currently publishes 150 undisplayed works from the Men’s series, especially in the 2027 survey that will not appear on undisclosed Asian and South American venues.
Mann is artwork The series is not entirely without its advantages. “I have believed that the relationship between the subject and the photographer, while it may be a strict deal, can also be mutually beneficial, and I think of the images that may have some value to everyone involved,” she wrote.
What is not mentioned in the book is the latest controversy in Mann’s work, which is a photo of a naked child caught by police from the walls of the Fort Fort of Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, a strong protest led by Republican politicians and Christian groups. The works were taken away a few months later and returned to her gallery Gagosian.
this era She reportedly asked about this controversy about Mann, reportedly: “Hmm.”
