What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
	Rating
	Type	Video On Demand
	Release Date	2009-12-13
	Actor	Sally Mann;
	Director	Steven Cantor; Peter Spirer;
	Length	81 minutes
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	Lowest New Price	$2.99
Categories
Independent Film  Biography  Zeitgeist Films
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Description
As one of the world's preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork this challenges viewers' values and moral attitudes. Described by Time magazine as "America's greatest photographer," she first came to international prominence in 1992 together with Immediate Family, a series of advanced and enigmatic images of her three kids. What Remains--Mann's recent series on the myriad aspects of death and decay--is the subject of this eponymously titled documentary.Filmed at her Virginia farm, Mann is surrounded by her husband and now-grown kids, and her willingness to reveal her artistic process lets the viewer to gain special entrance to her world. Never one to compromise, she reflects on her own personal feelings concerning mortality as she continues to examine the boundaries of contemporary art. Spanning five years, What Remains contains unbridled access to the many stages of Mann's work, and is a rare glance of an eloquent and brilliant artist.
Customer Reviews
Insightful   2010-03-10
By Thomas J. Wu (San Jose, CA USA)
This is a good way of getting inside the head of an artist at work.
Great on Many Levels   2010-02-20
By Brandi S. Martin (chicagoland)
If you want to learn more about Sally Mann as a photographer, this is great. If you want to see how people struggle with the creative process, this is a great film. If you want to be inspired with how some people deal with adversity and come back even stronger, or how life events shape one's art, you will also appreciate it. For me personally, what I take away from the film is how when scary or bad things happen to most people, they avert, avoid, bury, and forget. The real artist keeps looking, never blinking, and really examines everything, even death, until they find or make something truly profound. I have my photo students watch this, and at first they are creeped out. Eventually they come around and love it too. Every time I watch it, I see something else that the film maker did, subtle but great transitions and cuts that add layers of meaning. Totally worth buying.
Intelligent exploration of life through art.   2009-05-08
By DBuddha
Sally Mann is one of my art heroes. Mann approaches relatively simple subject matter (such as landscapes, her family & death) & makes them profound through exploration & representation. Mann sees these subjects through a lens (literally & metaphorically) which compels the viewer to reevaluate meaning and thus, hopefully, to grow psychologically and emotionally. In my eyes, this is the ultimate purpose of art. This documentary presents Sally Mann & her family in intimate terms. The viewer gets a good feeling for whom she is, what motivates her and her style of working process. I highly recommend this for any photographer/artist whom is interested in pushing the limits of their own arts.
untittled   2009-04-16
By lunchbox benny
Sally Mann is one of the most important photographers of our time, and this dvd is essential to understanding her work as an artist. This dvd deserves 6 stars because in the extras it includes the 30 minute oscar nominated documentary "Blood Ties" that aired on HBO in the early 90's during the "Immediate Family" photos. As well as the new full length doc that takes you through the "What Remains" era and how that concept unfolded from her husbands illness, into the death of her dog, into the suicide of a prisoner on her farm, into the civil war landscapes, into the photos of decaying bodies, into the photos of her children. She really challenges all of our concepts and fears of the subject of death and breaks it down to a beautiful idea of a natural process. I really can't say enough about how important her work is, but this dvd will. All i can say is this is worth your time and money.
what remains   2009-04-05
By Annalise K. Shingler
fantastic documentary. very nostalgic and inspiring. very real. i have immense respect and admiration for sally mann.