Influences

Mann claims that she utilized many of her photography techniques from her photography professor at Bennington College, Norman Sieff.  But he was not the only person to influence her way of photography.  She was inspired by the techniques of 19^th century photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Eugene Atget.  Her landscape photographs have also been characterized with the influence of pictorialism.

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Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was among the most original British photographers of the 19th century. At the age of 48 she marched bravely into the awkward intricacies of photography—with its cumbersome cameras, unwieldy glass plates, and precarious developing processes—finding in its practice an ideal outlet for her creative talents.
This exhibition draws from the major public and private collections of Cameron photographs in the United States and Great Britain. The assembled works reveal the breadth and ambition of an artist who, in a career that lasted little more than a decade, produced one of the most significant bodies of work in the history of photography. (Source)

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Eugene Atget

At around age 30, Eugène Atget settled in Paris and became a photographer. The rest of his life was spent recording everything he could that he considered picturesque or artistic in and around Paris, with an eye for strange and unsettling images. His main clients were museums and historical societies. After World War I he received a commission to document the brothels of Paris. (Source)

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Pictorialism

Between 1903 and 1915, the Craftsman repeatedly featured articles on the specific practice of artistic photography known as pictorialism, a movement dedicated to promoting photography as a fine art. To do so, practitioners emphasized their creative impulses in composing their shots, and they perfected their skills in the darkroom, often hand working their negatives or prints to achieve the most beautiful results. The aims of pictorialists and craftsmen were not always in complete harmony, but there were considerable resonances between the goals of photographers and the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement. Like craftsmen, many pictorialists displayed an interest in the people and artistic styles of other cultures, most notably Japanese and Native American art and traditions. Others explored themes drawn from domesticity, nature, and rural life. (Source)


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