Sally Mann's black and white photographs of her children portray the universal qualities of dignity, individuality and intimacy.
Although many people look at these photos and think they are exposing her children, they are quite provocative images; they are ultimately a documentary of her family. It shows the intimacy that the family has with one another, but it also lets you into their home. The photos allow you to see that they live in a woodland home, with surrounding private land, allowing the children to be free in their own home to be able to run around and play with no clothes on if that's how they wish to be. They are not living under any society rules, they have their own space and they use it how they want to use it.
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