[↖] Sally Mann – The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude (1987); [↑] Mary Ellen Mark – Amanda and her cousin Amy, Valdese, North Carolina (1990); [↗] Sally Mann – Candy Cigarette from Immediate Family series (1989); [↓] Jen Ervin – Untitled (2015)
Follow* the thread.
* There’s a photo that featured on a poster in my undergrad dark room–by an American woman circa the mid-to-late 1990s; it’s a B&W photo (a platinum print?) of a girl–perhaps 9 or 10–standing in dripping wet one-piece swimsuit next to a split rail fence (I think?). Maybe one of her siblings is climbing on the fence, I think there are two other people in the photo. The girl is making eye contact with the camera and is mugging a bit. The surroundings scream American suburbs. Also, I think the title of the image possibly has something to do with summer in Connecticut and it was on a poster from either a gallery or advertising a book (I can’t remember which). I am more than a little irritated with myself for being unable to remember it. (I swear it was Corinne Day but I’ve been unable to find the same photo in anything of hers online.) If anyone has a clue what I’m referring to–please for the love of all that is holy, drop me a line. The point of this post was supposed to be how young photographers don’t even necessarily have to be familiar with the full history of fine art photography because frequently the work that influences them draws influences from folks that are even more prototypically working within the same conceptual realm/with a startling overlap in their creative concerns.
Acetylene Eyes 