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Photographer Sally Mann On Art, Illness, Love And Life

Through the years, artist Sally Mann has made a name for herself by working in the painstaking medium of large-format photography. In a video she...

by Claire O'NeillFeb, 17 2011

A Sally Mann self-portait, circa 1974 Image: Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/

Thursday on All Things Considered, Melissa Block spends some time with renowned photographer Sally Mann. Find the whole interview here.

Mann works exclusively with a large-format view camera and typically focuses on the people and family around her — controversial images of her children in the 1990s and lately, the focus has been her husband.

In this video, Mann discusses a recently curated collection of her work that focuses on images of the body. It includes her series Proud Flesh, an examination of her husband's struggle with muscular dystrophy.

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