Deep South, Untitled (Dark Glow)
Sally Mann
American, born 1951

Details
Title
Deep South, Untitled (Dark Glow)
Artist/Maker
Sally Mann (American, born 1951)
Date
1998, printed 1999
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
37 x 46 1/2 inches
Credit
Gift of Gloria and Paul Sternberg, Jr.
Accession #
2003.122
On View
Currently not on view
Using a large-format view camera and nineteenth-century photographic processes, Sally Mann infuses this view of a dim glow amidst a thickly-overgrown, seemingly impenetrable forest with a sense of mystery and foreboding. Mann’s technique is at once aesthetic and conceptual. The dark halo cradling the circle of light and the visible dust and scratches on the negative function as visible metaphors for the tumultuous and dark racial history of the American South, as though the landscape itself is haunted by misdeeds of the past.
Image Copyright
© Sally Mann. All Rights Reserved.
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