sally man.

For some reason I forgot how crazy Sally Mann really was. This added a whole new dimension to her as it went from more than just taking strange pictures of her kids and now moved into her pictures of her dead dog, its corroding body, its bones, and finally the last claw that remained. She clearly had a whole lot of unresolved issues going on which I think helped her as an artist because it made her different and showed her work from a new fresh perspective. 

While I respect Sally Mann as an artist, to me a lot of her work seemed the same and very formula driven. She would take something shocking like her naked kids or a dead dog and photograph it. An idea that was seen by the art world as new and fresh began to appear as just another strange picture. 

Many of the great artists have had issues within themselves and this is often times their claim to fame. I think that because she was so strange, this made her unique and ushered in her success. I think it was cool at the end where she was doing a piece that she did for herself that was not for money or commercialism but rather for her own piece of mind.