Analysis Of Sally Mann's Candy Cigarette

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Candy Cigarette is a photograph by Sally Mann in a gelatin silver print medium, that was shot in 1989. Candy Cigarette depicts three children, two girls in the foreground and a boy on stilts in the background. Only the middle figure, Jessie Mann, is facing the camera with a blank expressionless face, while the other two are onlooking the path ahead of them. The centre model, Jessie Mann, is slouched away from the path behind her while nonchalantly balancing a cigarette in her left hand.

Mann has created this work outside by using pure natural lighting in a landscape orientation at an eye-level angle. She has photographed this image as if it was completely impromptu. It may not be obvious but she created this captured moment by using her children as posing models when she took the image by a large format 8x10 viewing camera, which implies it was staged to some extent. Mann also manipulates which aspect the audience is directed to first, by using a wide aperture, such as f/2.8 which results in a shallow depth of field. She presents this image in black …show more content…

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