The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don’t have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them. Sally Mann Read Quote
I’m the weird person who completely loved and devoured ‘Middlemarch’ but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night. Sally Mann Read Quote
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8×10. But I’ve started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly. Sally Mann Read Quote
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn’t about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up. Sally Mann Read Quote
I’m not an ardent feminist – well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves. Sally Mann Read Quote
I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them. Sally Mann Read Quote
Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don’t you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can’t stand that paper. Sally Mann Read Quote
