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Photographer Sally Mann reveals in her new memoir *Art Work* that she now has reservations about her series “Men,” which features Black men photographed between 2004 and 2018. She writes that she removed 14 of those images from her 2018 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art after the 2017 Whitney Biennial controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till’s open casket, which made Mann reconsider the ethics of a white artist representing Black subjects. Mann describes the series as “problematic” and acknowledges that historically marginalized people should tell their own stories. She currently has 150 unshown works from the series, which will not appear in a planned 2027 survey.
