Reading Sally Manns Interview

Just looking at the images and reading that they were donated to a Anthropology Centre (body farm puts us on edge, as were not used to this type of imagery only in films, and only then it isnt as realistic, but after you read her interview you see a different approach to it. In the interview it explains that she took images in both colour and black and white, I studied Photography as an A-level so I know that images in different colours give of different moods, like black and white is more subtle, I think thats why Sally Mann went for this so that her images didnt seem as powerful, if she went for her colour images I can imagine them being very shocking showing how the flesh looked like and how grim these bodies looked. Sally Mann stated that she wanted to photograph the un speak-able like she did with her children and her husband, although some people will still have their opinions in this area its all a matter of how you see it and how you interpret it. Although I see the images of her children wrong, I dont see the photographs of her husband wrong, because shes photographing an adult in the nude and I can imagine she has done these in interesting ways that wouldn't be considered as pornography. I can understand where she is coming from when she says "That attitude started in the 1800s with the rise of romanticism and the emphasis on the importance of nature and honouring the dead. And with that came an almost prudish attitude to death. It used to be sex that was the unspeakable but now nobody wants to get old and nobody wants to die" because not many people spoke of sex but nowerdays its everywhere, you cant escape it, when you walk down the high street,magazines and internet. So it shows how time changes certain things, Although I dont think images of dead bodies will be publicized like this but it is showing us that it isnt something to fear or to not talk about, its part of life like sex. However I understand Sally Manns uptake to her photography but I'm not sure how I feel about it, as its not an everyday thing to see naked bodies.