Sally Mann’s 8x10 wet plate collodian glass prints (a process that involves glass plates being coated in collodian and then dipped in silver nitrate, and then exposed while still wet) seem timeless and still. Her photographs in her Deep South series range from various landscapes and scenery in Louisiana and Mississippi.
This image is of a huge scar that is cut across the tree. The trees are as old as the plantation ruins that surround them and Mann’s photographs capture the vintage aura that remains there. “These pictures are about the rivers of blood, of tears, of sweat that Africans poured into the dark soil of their thankless new home,” writes Mann, remarking on the difference in tone between the “Deep South.”
One of the most interesting parts of the series is the absence of any human beings, even though the memory of them still seems to sit there. Mann seems to capture the sincere history of the south, but with an eerie essence.
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