morgan
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I was poking around Barnes and Noble last night and stumbled on "Deep South". I can't say I'm huge landscape fan, but I was flat out floored by her work. I've seen some of her family work, but hadn't seen these before. I don't know much about her process or equipment but the quality of the images were simply haunting. I was simply transported to her world. Does anybody know about how she gets that look of her prints or what she uses? Here's a PBS link: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/card1.html
cpborello
Established
She uses a "collodian" process with a lens that has mildew and misaligned elements. See the link below
http://www.tufts.edu/programs/mma/fah189/2002/nmadahar/sallymann.html
http://www.tufts.edu/programs/mma/fah189/2002/nmadahar/sallymann.html
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andreas
i am not digital.
Hi Morgan,
i`m a big fan of her work, too.
As far as i know, she works with a 8x10, or bigger, field camera. For Negatives, she uses wet collodium glass plates, i think. Probably homemade. Combined with these old large format lenses used wide open, you get some very interesting results. Of course, this means nothing without a strong photographic vision, which she obviously has.
I`m planning to do a bit of experimenting with glass plates myself, using my old Voigtländer Bergheil 9x12 cm
. Hope to post some results in the future.
(Hello Bartender, what about a Classic Voigtländer LF/MF forum? Maybe no rangefinders, but definitely classics, like the TLRs!)
All the best,
andreas
www.myspace.com/tiredmusik
i`m a big fan of her work, too.
As far as i know, she works with a 8x10, or bigger, field camera. For Negatives, she uses wet collodium glass plates, i think. Probably homemade. Combined with these old large format lenses used wide open, you get some very interesting results. Of course, this means nothing without a strong photographic vision, which she obviously has.
I`m planning to do a bit of experimenting with glass plates myself, using my old Voigtländer Bergheil 9x12 cm
. Hope to post some results in the future.(Hello Bartender, what about a Classic Voigtländer LF/MF forum? Maybe no rangefinders, but definitely classics, like the TLRs!)
All the best,
andreas
www.myspace.com/tiredmusik
morgan
Well-known
I found some videos of her on that PBS site actually. She's holding a large camera together with her head!
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/index.html#
Her work is so haunting, so mysterious, it really sticks in you. I've been thinking about it all day. She does have remarkable photographic vision.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/index.html#
Her work is so haunting, so mysterious, it really sticks in you. I've been thinking about it all day. She does have remarkable photographic vision.
morgan
Well-known
cpborello said:
Thanks for the link! Very informative.
FrankS
Registered User
"I embrace the accidents, the serendipity of the process ...Mistakes are not the end of the world, and perfection is not my goal."
I like that.
I like that.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
And some of those prints are literally 'huge' like 4x5 feet. Quite powerful in person.
terrafirmanada
Well-known
Good read. Very interesting technique.