"No woman has ever turned a camera so candidly on a man."

      - critic observation from The New York Times

At the first exhibition for 'Proud Flesh' Sally Mann encountered, once again, some controversy. The pictures were considered immodest by some of the people who went to see the exhibition. This book addresses love and married life in its raw and pure form. The daily activities that go on in the household to nudity to sex. Some people just didn't really see it that way, for them it was indecent exposure. Sally Mann was once again pressing buttons and shoving reality down the public's throat, a reality which some were uncomfortable with; one they wanted to be kept at arms length. 
Call me biased, but I think it is simply amazing. To make beauty out a tragedy and to approach a subject with such candor and intensity.


From watching the documentary 'What Remains: The life and work of Sally Mann' you can see the love and feel the pain that she is going through dealing with her husband's disease.  In this she also comes to question and consider her own mortality. Asking herself the question of how she's like her pictures to be seen after she passes away, in which her simple response is “I don’t want to leave vapid, meaningless pictures obviously, but I don’t want to leave behind anything that’s hurtful, to him or anyone else”