Sally Mann's photos are beautiful. She just use the black and white to expect her thinking. The children in her photos are like angle, do not have sensual feeling. Using children as model give people more shock than other object. She just want to express her feeling in easier way. I think it is not a kind of social taboo, she does not need to be censored.
If artists exist outside the normal boundaries they also can be acceptable. Because they have freedom to create what they like. If it is really very ugly, people will not accept their artwork. And a lot of times artists want to use some way to expect their feeling. Therefore, I think it is acceptable.
Hi Jing,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you are thinking about Mann's photos. I also think they are beautiful, and that she has attempted to make them look otherworldly if not always "angelic." It's also true that most of us don't like ugly artwork, although sometimes it's wonderful when someone takes something"ugly" and makes it "beautiful."