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WHOSAFRAIDOFSALLYMANN?
Im a little like Flaubert, who when looked at a young girl
sawthe skeleton underneath. Its not morbid, its just this
awarenessof the antithetical aspect of every situation
Sally Mann
American photographer Sally Mann was born in Lexington,Virginia
in 1951, where she still lives and works.
In rural Virginia, she grew up as a feral child, she recalls,
running around outdoors without cloths.
Sallys father, a physician and civil rights supporter, gave hera
camera when she was 17.
Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and
studiedliterature in college.
She took up photography in Putney. Later, she attendedworkshops
by Ansel Adams and George Tice.
Her main artistic concerns are time, memory, loss and love,
buttime, among all of them, is determinant.
Mann has won innumerous awards, including
Guggenheimfellowship.
Time magazine named her Americas Best Photographerin 2001.
In 2006, she received a honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degreefrom
the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
Mann is perhaps best known for her book Immediate
Family,published in 1992.
This collection, featuring photographs of her three
children,brought her work to a wide audience.
Last Manns series, Proud Flesh (2009), is a graphic elegy to her
husband, who has muscular dystrophy.
THE LOOK UNDERNEATH
IMMEDIATE FAMILY, 1992
Many of these pictures are intimate, some fictions andsome
fantastics, but most are ordinary things that everymother has seen
[On Immediate Family]
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WHAT REMAINS, 2003
Most of the pictures I take are of the things I love, thethings
that fascinate me and compel me, but that doesntmean they are easy
to look at or take
DEEP SOUTH, 2005
I think this new book will not be thought of as just a book of
prettypictures down South. Bourne within the images are resonances
of theCivil War, of the fact that the whole Mississippi delta was
literallycarved out of jungle by African-Americans (...). You cant
forget thisheritage [On Deep South]
PROUD FLESH, 2009
(...) Larry and I began this work of exploring what it means to
growolder, to let the sunshine fall voluptuously on a
still-beautiful form,and to spend quiet afternoons together again.
No phone, no kids,two fingers of bourbon, the smell of the ether,
the two of us stillin love, still at work [On Proud Flesh]
PHOTOGRAPHSInternet
TEXTSally Mann (Italics)Time (Jul. 09, 2001) & Smithsonian
(May 2005) on-line magazines (Edited)
SEARCHWikipedia, jmcolberg.com/weblog, Aug. 19, 2009
MUSICERIK SATIE Gymnopdie n 3 Piano Klra KrmendiLOREENA MCKENNIT
Dantes Prayer
SALLY MANN IS REPRESENTED BYGagosian Gallery of New YorkOTHER
SALLYS MANN PHOTOGRAPH BOOKSSecond Sight, 1984At Twelve: Portraits
of Young Women, 1988Still Time, 1994Mother Land: Recent Landscapes
of Georgia and Virginia, 1997PERMANENT COLLECTIONS FEATURING MANNS
WORKThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkThe Museum of Modern
Art (MoMA), New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art, New
YorkSmithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, D. C.Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
