Sally Mann

Sally Mann is known for her black and white photographs. Going through some of her photographs, i realized that her photos have an eerie feeling to it and the main theme appears to be disorder, decay and death. She uses sharp contrast between the edges and the center of the photo to bring out more detail and her is of lighting is impeccable. 

 In the photo of the river, the contrast and the detail in the rocks was interesting to me. I like how she has the corpuscular rays coming in from the side. The picture has more of a dark tone on the left side and then it brightens as we move to the right. Another one of her photos that appealed to me was the picture of the tree trunk. In it, just the trunk is in focus while the background is out of focus and a little blurry indicating movement. I feel like it shows how the tree is constant as everything around it changes. Also the mark on the trunk adds to the photo and gives somehow personifies the tree.