The cowboy image Apr 22, 2008
Kendrick belongs to a growing group of commercial and art photographers - including gallery stars like Sally Mann and Chuck Close - who have retreated in recent years from the ease and exactitude of the digital age and taken up the difficult, ethereal techniques of early photography, including the ambrotype (in which a unique image is created on a glass plate), daguerreotype (on polished silver) and tintype (usually on tin-plated iron ). The latest result of Kendrick's twin obsessions - with... (International Herald Tribune)
Roanoke gets new avant-garde art museum Mar 7, 2008
The museum now displays less than 6 percent of its permanent collection, which includes works of 19th and 20th century American art by Thomas Eakins, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer and contemporary works by Jacob Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Sally Mann. Each gallery will be distinctive. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Critics' picks - visual arts Feb 24, 2008
Sally Mann's "The New Mothers" is part of "Presumed Innocence" at the DeCordova ... "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children," an exhibit of 114 photographs and one video by artists ranging from Sebastiao Salgado to Sally Mann, lets us see familiar images afresh. (Boston Globe)
'Some Things Are Private' reexamines a mother's controversial photos Feb 11, 2008
Then again, photographer Sally Mann has been through a few firestorms in her career - most notably the uproar around "Immediate Family," her book of nude photos of her young children, published in 1992, which was met with cries of "Pornography!" and made her one of the top selling fine-art photographers of her time ... Or this one, also to the Times: "Sally Mann's photographs of her children reveal a love of such ferocious intensity, no wonder people get scared.". (Boston Globe)
'Presumed Innocence' presents kids as more than tiny adults Feb 11, 2008
"Presumed Innocence" includes six Sally Mann pictures, a Tierney Gearon, and note the juxtaposition of savored cigarette and licked lollipop in Mark Cohen's "Untitled (Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking)" - but the great strength of the exhibition is its refusing to cram into any one category such a vast, barrier-ignoring concept as "childhood." The subtitle, while admittedly flat, gives a far more accurate sense of this large and vigorously varied exhibition. To get a sense of how varied consider Chan... (Boston Globe)
'Black & White': Stark portrait of mother, daughter Apr 19, 2007
Like controversial real-life shutterbug Sally Mann, Ruth starts shooting her daughter nude, in alluring poses. The photos are a hit, her gallery shows sell out, and her husband is furious that she's manipulated their child for her own gain. (USA Today -- Life)
