Since my husband hails from Louisiana, I could consider my kids children of the Deep South. They were all born here, it's a part of them. This book by photographer, Sally Mann, looks lovely. I think I need it.
From David Levi Strauss, on Artforum: "Using old, damaged lenses on an 8-by-10 view camera, Mann admits light leaks, imperfections, and distortions, and then extends their effects in the darkroom. Often one part of an image is in dead sharp focus, while everything else blurs and wavers to the edges. Space is warped and twisted within frames. In the "Georgia" series especially, the effect is one of looking back in time, through layers of memory and amnesia. A chemical factory on the horizon becomes a battleship in the mist. A ragged patch of trees seems to retreat over the crest of a hill. In a portentous arrangement of logs, one bent and snaking trunk lifts a dorsal fin into the air, where it dissolves into transparency."
7.08.2009
Deep South
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ooooo i love both your posts today les. i want both of them! those pictures are incredible (and sound incredible) - and that book! ha! brill indeed :)
SO beautiful. Some people are so talented.
Going to have to look this up. Emily said exactly what I was thinking.
do get it! Sally Mann is brilliant and so is this collection of haunting photographs. I highly recommend it. la
sally mann is one of my very favorite photographers. have you seen her photographs of her children of the deep south? they are amazing
Oh my goodness, amazing! love this choice.
Hi, Leslie! I have a simple blog with my dear friend Becky, chronicling our lives as Southerners (http://sweeticedtea.wordpress.com/). I hope you don't mind we directed our readers to your lovely entry yesterday about the Deep South. I read your blog daily. Keep the loveliness coming!
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