Saturday, December 27, 2025

Seeing Sally Mann: A Progression

   Photographer Sally Mann near Lexington, Virginia  (Erinn Springer for the NYT)
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Haunted by a first way of seeing

The nameless abstractions

Quirks of an antique process

Then the avalanche comes down


Always two things

What it says to the world

And what it says to you


We've built too close to the river

The next flood will take us





–– On the works of Sally Mann, built with extractions
from Walker Mimms interview with the photographer
published in the New York Times in September, 2025.