"What remains: the life and work of Sally Mann"
Zeitgeist Films (2008)
This week we were assigned to watch a film titled "What remains: the life and work of Sally Mann." This film is about Sally Mann, a famous photographer known for her portraits and landscape photography. Her work has been considered controversial because she had taken photos of her children growing up and in these photographs, the children were fully nude. In this film, we learn about this work and how Sally Mann did not consider the work to be child pornography, but rather she just wanted to capture her children as they were. I honestly was not the biggest fan of the film because I found a lot of Mann's work to be disturbing. There was a part of the film around 40 minutes in which she is seen photographing her dead dog's bones that still had old flesh on them. A few minutes later she is then visiting a location where real bodies have been let out in a space to decay. A lot of these shots I found disturbing and Webb was so fascinated with these subjects. I believe her landscape photography is impressive, but regarding her other work, I would personally enjoy other subject matters.
