Acutally, I think Mann's photographs of her children are interesting to me. In these photos, I like the facial expressioin of her children; they are very natural and not weird. Mann combine her children and the background in a natural way. Besides, although her children are naked in these photos, her photos are always presented as black-and-white photos. Therefore, I think they do not give us any sexualized and sensual feeling. She expresses her emotions to her children and records their childhood by these images. Moreover, I don't think she tries to provoke audiences because I believe that she just takes these pictures to show her art attitude in a different view.However, some people might not accept her photos with naked children. In my opinion, it is not fair for her. There are a lot of artists in the world, and they use all kinds of angles to express their ideas to invent their works of art. Maybe, some of them violate the normal boundaries of social taboos. I think that is their freedom. We should try to accept and not critcize for them.
Hey Joe!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a very thoughtful post. You answered all of the questions really well. I agree that Mann is looking to show us something truthful about childhood, and the nakedness doesn't bother me, either. It's also interesting that you mentioned Mann's photos being in black and white. Do you think we would have a different understand of them if they were in color?
Keep up the great work!
Jess
Hi Joe! I am very agree with your opinion. In my opinon, I also think her pictures are just natural not the sexualized. She just kept her recollection of her children's childhood.
ReplyDeleteAlso black and white picture make audiances imagine that cercumstances or situation her recollections though thinking about the color.
Hi Joe,
ReplyDeleteMann's photos are interesting to me, too. She shouldn't have suffered a lot of controversy about her pictures.
Hi, Joe!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. It is freedom to artist to expree their own feeling. The naked children are not have sexualized feeling