I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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Sally Mann
More Quotes By Sally Mann
Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.
The act of looking appraisingly at a man, studying his body and asking to photograph him, is a brazen venture for a woman; for a male photographer, these acts are commonplace, even expected.
I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made.. Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality...
The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is...
I tend to agree with the theory that if you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last...
