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Photographer – Sally Mann

// Content warning, Nude photography of children and one photo with blood in. //

Sally Mann makes very controversial photos, she uses her children own in the photos she takes, ranging from ages 1-12 and typically nude. This has made many question it being child pornography and deem it to be very inappropriate. People also tend not to want to see young children naked in such suggestive positions.

These photos are of one of her daughters, I’m not sure on the age of her in these pictures however it’s clear she is young. In the second photo (In colour and censored) she has a dog scratch across her stomach/chest and so Mann had decided to take a photo of her child like this. Here is a photo of Sally Mann:

She was born May 1st, 1951. She made her photographic debut at Putney with a photo of a nude classmate. Mann’s first book, “Second Sight”, was published in 1984. In the 1970’s Mann explored with a range of styles/genres which led her to making the book “At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women.” In 1995 she was featured in an issue of Aperture.

While taking photos of her children she had also taken them to see professionals about their mental health to see if it had any effect on them in a negative way however, everyone they had gone to said it would be fine and that there was no effect on them. Personally, as a completely unprofessional look on the subject I don’t think it will positively effect the children unless they plan to go into acting or modelling as then they will have experience with and be comfortable around a camera but aside from that I can’t see a very positive effect on them especially since Mann herself had mentioned that there were perverted people sending threats and letters to the girls family members and schools. They had to move house due to this and at one point feared there would be a break in or something else of wicked nature.

There are some photos Mann has taken of her children when they are simply having fun and messing around as children, mostly nude as this is how they were raised since Sally Mann herself said she was raised to run free and nude, However there are some photos where her children are portraying pain, isolation and insecurity.

Mise en scene

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Personal favourite shows/movies –

(It’s a long ol’ list.)

Mise en scene, put into the scene/frame.

-Props and settings.

-Characterisation, Hair, Makeup, Costume.

-Facial expression.

-Lighting and colour.

-Positioning of characters and objects.

Director – Christopher Nolan.

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Born on the 30th of July, 1970, Christopher Nolan began his journey as a self-taught film maker. From the age of 7 he had an interest in filmography, creating stop motions with action figures and small animations occasionally he had grown a passion for this hobby.

Later on in life he studied English in school as there were no film schools he could attend however this had not stopped him, during his time at college he made two short films, Tarantella and Larceny. Nolan then went on to create his third short film, Doodlebug.

In 1998 with a self funded budget of around £3000 Nolan directed his first feature named “Following” with his friends on weekends within a year. This film was inspired by someone Burgling Nolan’s home in London. It’s success had led to him to create his breakthrough hit named Memento.

Now Christopher Nolan is adored by Nerds, producers, screenwriters and actors all around but most of all his wife, Emma Thomas. The loving couple work together on every movie with her Co-producing, including Memento, In production notes for The prestige she had said “I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he’s somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a little bit more twisted and interesting.”

Nolan is best known for his work of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Dunkirk.

He calls himself a “Jack of all trades and master of none.”
– Christopher Nolan

His methods –

He prefers film to digital video, opposing the use of digital intermediates and digital cinematography as he feels they are less reliable and have a lower image quality.

Typically his movies will turn you into somewhat of a detective, they are mentally challenging, mostly dark and surreal. He likes using expressive lighting and almost gives you a first person viewpoint with over the shoulder scenes. Nolan also tends not to tell the story linearly, using things like flash-backs and flash-forwards. For example, in inception there is a flash-forward to the end of the film and in The Prestige the first scene is the same as the last one.