"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
"Untitled (#1)" (1998)
"Untitled (#1)," 1998
From the "Deep South" series
Tea-toned gelatin silver print, 38 x 48 inches
© Sally Mann
Courtesy the artist and Edwyn Houk Gallery, New York
From the "Deep South" series
Tea-toned gelatin silver print, 38 x 48 inches
© Sally Mann
Courtesy the artist and Edwyn Houk Gallery, New York
"One of the appropriate metaphoric things in this whole process is that I found out from a doctor that collodion was used in surgery during the Civil War to bind wounds, and I thought 'Oh, how fitting that I should be taking this process to the deep South.'"
- Sally Mann
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