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Quote by Sally Mann

“All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.”

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Sally Mann is an American photographer known for her unique style and profound depictions of nature, family, and Southern American culture. Her work often explores the relationship between humans and nature, as well as reflections on memory and history. more

“There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.”

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“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.”

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“A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'”

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“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.”