Sally Mann
Sally Mann shoots photos in Large format of Documentary portraiture in black and white and sepia tones mainly of her home life and children. She doesn't manipulate her images digitally but the way she processes her images with chemicals from the dark rooms she will sometimes add tones to her images to make them sepia tones or just leave them raw black and white.
She uses a range of composition on her images, Sally mainly uses a small depth of field to photograph her images of portraits so your eyes are focused onto the detail of the appearances of her children/models. There is also a form of composition in her images because she places her models in the middle of the images so your eyes are automatically drawn to the main focus point of the image. Her images aren't published in magazines they are usually just for her own purposes. Some of her black and white portraiture shots are in the style of David Bailey with the black and white emotional small depth of field portrait photographers.
Although this image is of the same person with the same facial expressions its a completely separate image to any of her other images because of the tones she uses, and because the image is slightly out of focus it gives the face and the shadows a soft but sharp focus which i will use in my future assignments and photographs because it gives it a really old style effect. I like Sally Mann's work because every photo has some form of emotion or meaning in it and because she photographs her children every image is special to her and tells some form of story in it. I also like the fact that because she shoots her photographs in large format that her images also come out large so you can see every bit of detail in the images.
