Mason Hartley - Sally Mann

     Sally Mann is a professional photographer from Lexington, Virginia.  Her style was highly criticized by the public.  Her works included photographs of her children being kids in their natural setting. However, in most of these pictures her kids were naked.  With some pictures more revealing than others, people thought that it was wrong for Sally Mann to publicly reveal images of her naked kids.
    
     I think that Sally Mann has the freedom to do her own art as she pleases.  I also think that as long as her kids give their consent to the publicity of the photos they are in she has every right to do so.  However, I don’t understand why you would want to publicize your kids in that way.  The world we live in, and even back then, is very sick and twisted and full of perverted people who don’t look at these photographs with innocence. 

     Sally man was not in the wrong, however, when it comes to legal issues.  Moral concepts, however, that’s when the discussion becomes more dynamic and complex.


                                                                       Works Cited:


“Sally Mann.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Aug. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Mann.

“Sally Mann.” Self-Portrait with Dog by Constantin Brancusi on Artnet, Sotheby's London, www.artnet.com/artists/sally-mann/.

“ABOUT.” Sally Mann, www.sallymann.com/new-page/.