Encore: Sally Mann turns lens on her own 'Southern Gothic' life in memoir
Encore Presentation: Renowned American photographer Sally Mann joins host Carol Off in studio for a wide-ranging discussion of her work and life. She opens up about the controversy surrounding nude photos of her children, her preoccupation with death and decay, and how she approaches photographing African-American men as a white photographer from the South.
'Controversial' is not a label American photographer Sally Mann ever expected to be associated with her work. But the label has stuck -- even more than two decades after the publication of her book Immediate Family, which featured nude images of her young children.
In her new memoir Hold Still, Sally Mann reflects on the unexpected consequences of making her family a part of her art. She also seeks to an unravel her own family history which, in her words, includes a "payload of southern gothic: deceit and scandal, alcoholism...car crashes...clandestine affairs...and maybe even bloody murder."
Sally Mann joined As It Happens host Carol Off for a feature interview about her work and life.