Deep South
by Sally Mann
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Author: Sally MannEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-09-28
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: Bulfinch
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Book Review: The Emperor's New Clothes
Summary: 2 Stars
Strip away all the defensive aesthetic gibberish, and this volume is nothing more than shots taken with a broken antique camera and damaged glass plates, then over-toned to make them appear old. There seems to be too much left to chance in this collection, certainly not what I admired about Mann's work in the past: sharp images that get to the point and hide nothing.
To myself, a person who actually lives in the deep south, the images here are evoke nothing other than an urge to grab a bottle of Windex; it's sheer caricature; an attempt to imitate the effects of time, cliched images of the Old South, or imitate Matthew Brady. It's a photographic contradiction-in-terms; a brand-new antique. Some of the images are invisible -- there's nothing but overexposed light and (deliberately) scratched glass. Pretty self-indulgent. A teenager with a Holga probably could have produced something similar.
Hardly Mann's best work. A serious misstep, in my opinion. The process is interesting; the choice of plates seems almost perfunctory. The results barely scrape the surface. I'd sum it up by saying that this volume is not art, on the grounds that the "envisioning" of the final work is pretty much left to the camera, and not the person holding it. For final punctuation, this book is also out of print and in the bargain basement.
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