Sally Mann:
- Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951
- She studied at The Putney School, Bennington College, and Friends World College
- She photographed adolescent girls, her children, and later landscapes, decay, and death
- She is most well known for documenting her three children in a series called Immediate Family. These photos were controversial and sometimes called child pornography due to the nudity they contained. These photos captured childhood moments laced with insecurity, loneliness, injury, sexuality, and death.
- Mann considered her photos “natural through the eyes of the mother” because she had seen her children in all stages and emotions.
- Later in her career Mann began to photograph landscapes on 8x10 glass negatives. She also documented the effects of her husband’s muscular dystrophy over six years.
JH Engstrom:
- JH Engstrom was born in 1969 in Karlstad Sweden.
- He graduated in 1997 from Gothenburg University.
- In his series of nudes, he documents the human form in soft light. These portraits have been considered unsettlingly intimate and reminiscent of 70s soft porn.
- Engstrom’s Trying To Dance series is a diary of his life through the lens. These images seem to be more life snapshots or his friends and the people around him.
- This series gives a candid look into the daily life of the artist and the people he encounters.
Mark Laita
- Mark Laita was born in Detroit in 1960. He began to shoot photos at the age of ten and assisted commercial photographers after high school. He attended Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, and Columbia College.
- Laita’s most recognized series is “Created Equal,” a series in which he juxtaposed portraits of Americans in provocative diptychs. Some of the combinations documented include pedophile and child, Baptist churchgoer and white supremacist, and polygamist and pimp.
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