The Unique Child Image Presentation Of Sally Mann

Sally Mann is an international photography with wide influence and being active in the contemporary photography art field who is also the leader in this field in the 20 th century. She has published the works of Still Time, Twelve, Immediate Family, What Remains and Deep South, such a collection of five series. After the publish of Immediate Family, exhibition, interview, collection and prize also brought Mann art and commercial successes and glories.Immediate Family is the most representative work of Mann that not only a record of her children’s childhood, but also a expression and exploration on the relationship between children’s emotional attachment to the mother and independent which has laid a solid foundation for the unique presentation and creative development of photography for children, also providing a classic work for the development of photography art. At the same time, it is worthy to imitate and learning the fusion of the creating way and the creating subject, the creating psychology, and the image presentation from Sally Mann works. Sally Mann used the diversity of photography language is to ensure that the polysemy of image. The praise of vitality and the deject and sadness as time goes by are deeply hiding in her works. And her style of photography is much more unique than other photo-artists.After investigate and survey a lot of photographic materials and books, it has proved that the case studies on photographers focusing on growth changes, the intersection of creation subject and the way of creation in the children photography filed are less. So this paper will do some researches on this topic that four parts are as follows. Chapter one is about the research background, topic basis, the purpose of research and research value and significance in theory and application. Chapter two points out the Sally Mann’s photography art life, including her life experience, the historical background(a mother photographer) and the influence of her former works on Immediate Family. Then, chapter three states the unique way and connotation of Immediate Family, such as psychology of photography creation, describing techniques, photographic mode and the image presentation. Lastly, chapter four isSally Mann’s influence and enlightenment on personal creation that is also the influence and guide from Sally to the author of this paper. This paper is aiming to through the analysis of Sally Mann and her work of Immediate Family to explore much more connotations and meanings from the children photography, especially the promotion between technique and creative content. Sally Mann’s visual and spiritual value makes her become a standard in the photography art filed. The photography should pay much attention and give enough credit to children photography and gradually improve the cognition and understanding of the photographers in the field of children photography to do a better service for the development of photography.