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The fact is that these are not my children they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all these are children in a photograph.

Sally Mann

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Sally Mann
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 1
Photographer
Lexington
Virginia
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Infinite
Muscle
Light
Figures
Shade
Children
Paper
Represent
Time
Expression
Afternoon
Silvery
Wind
Muscles
Fraction
Second
Tension
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Particular
Mood
Variables
Fact
Photograph
Posture

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My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.
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The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.
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