American - Photographer | May 1, 1951 -
Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
Sally Mann
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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