I looooooove Sally Mann. Now I can't say her work affects mine technically but what she has done by pushing the boundaries of photography is what I most admire. This album most accurately displays that. Warning! It's definitely NSFW. Besides that I think she has an interesting and unique approach to shooting projects in new areas. Take for example her Southern Landscapes project; what she did here was take water from a nearby stream for making the solvent(?) for her large format camera literally ingraining nature into her photos.
Thanks for sharing, I checked out the first link and I'm not really a fan of most of it. It seems pretty heavy handed. I can feel the photographers presence a lot and I'm not really a fan of that type of photography. I did like this shot a lot though:
And I don't blame you for not being a fan. In my photography class we spent about a week discussing Sally Mann and I was of the few who enjoyed her work; most people were outspokenly against her. But like I said it really wasn't the technicality of her photos, it was the boundary pushing that got me to really like her.