What Remains was very successful in showing insight to Sally Mann's creative process, her influences, and the depth of her work. Her narration was extremely honest, adding greatly to this depth in her work. Seeing her work, both in the darkroom and with her camera, allowed me to see her approach to photography as a very honest way of seeing the world around us.
At first I was not nearly as fond of her series on death as her family images, I did not find them as powerful or as well constructed. However I was fascinated by her including the series of living faces in the midst of death, this presentation changed the mood projected by the death pictures from a morbid consumption of death to the strength of what life can bring to the physical world.
I especially appreciated how she reduced all her subjects, her family, landscapes, or bodies to simple shapes and relationships between tones and movement. Extracting or inserting emotion into these subjects while de-emphasizing physical traits.
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