Sally Mann | Art21 | Preview from Season 1 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2001)

Sally Mann's early "Immediate Family" photographs were of her three children and husband. In her more recent series of landscapes of the deep South, Mann uses damaged lenses to make images marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century.

Sally Mann is featured in the Season 1 episode "Place" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".

Learn more about Sally Mann: http://www.art21.org/artists/sally-mann

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[birds singing]

*Mann: My plates are horribly flawed*

*but, of course, it's the flaws I like so you pray.*

*In your prayer, you pray:*

'Please, don't let me screw up.

Just screw up a little bit,

just enough to make it interesting'.

It's so stupid.

I have to use one hand to hold my shutter shot shut,

I have to use the head to keep the camera from moving...

There's got to be an easier way.

Alright, well, what d'ya think?

Thirty seconds, I'd say.