Deep South, Untitled (Dark Glow)
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Deep South, Untitled (Dark Glow)
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Sally Mann
American, born 1951
American, born 1951
Date
1998, printed 1999
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Accession #
2003.122
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Not on View
Description
Using a large-format view camera and nineteenth-century photographic processes, Sally Mann infuses this view of a dim glow amidst a thickly-overgrown, seemingly impenetrable forest with a sense of mystery and foreboding.
Mann’s technique is at once aesthetic and conceptual. The dark halo cradling the circle of light and the visible dust and scratches on the negative function as visible metaphors for the tumultuous and dark racial history of the American South, as though the landscape itself is haunted by misdeeds of the past.
Credit
Gift of Gloria and Paul Sternberg, Jr.Image Copyright
© Sally Mann. All Rights Reserved.