
Michelle Hood
Sally Mann has worked in Virginia for most of her career, producing large-format photographs of her children, the Southern landscape, and the human body. Her 1992 book Immediate Family - intimate photographs of her three children on their farm - was among the most discussed and contested photography books of the decade. Her later work with wet plate collodion, a nineteenth-century photographic process, produces photographs with a physical and historical density that other processes do not replicate.
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Manufactured by L.F. Deardorff & Sons in Chicago from the 1920s through the 1980s, the 8×10 is a wooden field camera producing negatives 8 by 10 inches. Its bellows design allows for full front and rear movements including tilt, swing, and shift.
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