Our latest issue, B+W 308, features an interview with one of America’s most renowned photographers, Sally Mann.
Across seven pages, she discusses her 50-year love affair with photography and writing with Tracy Calder. Mann, who reflects on her creative life in a new book, ‘Art Work’, puts her achievements down to passion and hard graft, rather than talent.
‘I was persistent,’ she says, ‘but I never thought I was brilliant. In fact, I still don’t think I’m brilliant. And I think being brilliant is part of being an artist.
‘I’m a peasant,’ she continues. ‘I truly work all the time. I think it comes from the assumption that I don’t have brilliance, but I do have a lot of energy.’
‘Art Work: On the Creative Life’ by Sally Mann is published in hardback by Particular Books, price £25