proud flesh

Proud Flesh.  a nude study of her husband, Larry Mann, with whom she has spent the last forty years. Sally Mann, with her true talent. as literate as she is visual, her essay about this work is a testament to the power of deep trust honed over time. moved by this paragraph:

And so it was with fire and ice, the studio woodstove too far away from the light to do him any good on a cold winter afternoon, that Larry and I began this work of exploring what it means to grow older, to let the sunshine fall voluptuously on a still-beautiful form, and to spend quiet afternoons together again. No phone, no kids, two fingers of bourbon, the smell of the ether, the two of us—still in love, still at work.