These works touch on ordinary moments-playing, sleeping, and eating-as well as larger themes such as death and cultural perceptions of sexuality and motherhood.
SALLY MANN SERIES
Between 19 she worked on the series Family Pictures, which focused on her three children, then all under the age of twelve.
In the early 1980s she published two books, Second Sight and At Twelve, the latter a study of young girls on the cusp of womanhood. Sally had her first solo museum exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 1977, presenting The Lewis Law Portfolio (1974–76) , a series of black-and-white photographs that comprise some of her earliest explorations into the inherent abstract beauty of the everyday. She has long used an 8 x 10 bellows camera and has explored platinum, bromoil, and wet-plate collodion processes for making prints. At a moment when many other photographers were creating large-scale color prints, Sally looked to photography’s past, investigating the visual and metaphorical potential of employing nineteenth-century technologies. She received a BA from Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, in 1974, and an MA in creative writing the following year. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory.īorn in Lexington, Virginia, Sally began to study photography in the late 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Sally is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. In 2016 Hold Still won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Her bestselling memoir, Hold Still (Little, Brown, 2015), received universal critical acclaim and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. A 1994 documentary about her work, Blood Ties, was nominated for an Academy Award, and the 2006 feature film, What Remains, was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. In 2001, Mann was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine. Her many books include At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh and The Spirit (2010). Her work has been exhibited by major institutions and is held in institutional collections worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Moderna Museet, Stockholm the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants. Sally Mann (b.1951, USA) is one of America’s most renowned photographers.
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