Immediate Family: In 1992 photographer Sally Mann courted controversy after her exhibition featuring photos of her children - nude, bloody, and battered - as suggestive suicide tableaux. Some called it brilliant, while others viewed it as pornographic, exploitative, and harmful to the emotional development of Emmet, Jessie, and Virginia. When Emmet fell and his nose started bleeding, his mother immediately dashed to his side - to photograph him. Because Mann shot with a large-format camera, each sessions lasted longer than an hour. The black and white, youthful nude in the wilderness aesthetic went on to be imitated and hyper sexualized by the clothing brand, Abercrombie & Fitch. 

In a sense, Mann was the ultimate artist: choosing to be a photographer over a mother, having subjects instead of children. Jessie continued to relentlessly photograph herself to much lesser critical acclaim and Emmet was rumored to have appeared in gay pornographic films. The Mann children, it appears, never grew out of being the camera’s eternal subjects.

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