Sally Mann was born in
1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work.
She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing
from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of
her three children and husband
resulted in a series called “Immediate Family.” In her recent
series of landscapes of Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and Georgia,
Mann has stated that she “wanted to go right into the heart
of the deep dark South.” Using damaged lenses and a camera
that requires the artist to use her hand as a shutter, these photographs
are marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that
were part of the photographic process as it developed during the
19th century. Mann has won numerous awards, including Guggenheim
and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her books of photographs
include “Immediate Family,” “At Twelve: Portraits
of Young Women;” and “Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of
Georgia and Virginia.” Her photographs are in the permanent
collections of many museums, including The Museum of Modern Art
and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Smithsonian
American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
For additional biographic & bibliographic information:
Gagosian Gallery, New York | Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Sally Mann on the Art21 blog |
