"I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do."
"I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected."
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Source: Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK
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