The book consists of 65 black-and-white photographs of her three children, all under the age of 10. Many of the pictures were taken at the family's remote summer cabin along the river, where the children played and swam in the nude. Many explore typical childhood themes (skinny dipping, reading the funnies, dressing up, vamping, napping, playing board games) but others touch on darker themes such as insecurity, loneliness, injury, sexuality and death. The controversy on its release was intense, including accusations of child pornography (both in America[14] and abroad[15]) and of contrived fiction with constructed tableaux.[4]
This habit of nudity is a family thing because Mann says she used to walk around her house naked when she was growing up. Cox states that “the own artist’s childhood is reflected in the way she captures moments in her children’s lives.”[18] One image that deals more with another aspect of childhood besides "naked play", Jessie's Cut, shows Jessie's head, wrapped in what appears to be plastic, with blood running down the side of her face from the cut above her left eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Mann#/media/File:%22Jessie%27s_Cut%22_by_Sally_Mann_(1985).jpg - "Jessie's cut".
[–] SayWhatNOWAY ago
Yeah, I would say this lady is a freak. Who but a pedo would take pics of their own children naked and make money off of it!