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Sally Mann is an acclaimed American photographer known for her intimate black-and-white images that explore themes of family, memory, and the South's history. Her notable works include 'Immediate Family,' which sparked controversy for its portrayal of her children, and 'At Twelve,' focusing on adolescent girls. Mann's career spans over four decades, marked by her innovative techniques and significant exhibitions, including a major retrospective in 2018.

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Sally Mann

Sally Mann is an acclaimed American photographer known for her intimate black-and-white images that explore themes of family, memory, and the South's history. Her notable works include 'Immediate Family,' which sparked controversy for its portrayal of her children, and 'At Twelve,' focusing on adolescent girls. Mann's career spans over four decades, marked by her innovative techniques and significant exhibitions, including a major retrospective in 2018.

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Sally Mann is a renowned American photographer best known for her intimate, large-

format black-and-white photographs that focus on people and places close to her,
including her children, husband, family home in Lexington, Virginia, and rural
landscapes. Her work spans over four decades and explores themes of family, memory,
mortality, and the South's complex history.

Mann's early career began at Washington and Lee University, where she worked
photographing the construction of a new law school building. This led to her first
solo exhibition in 1977 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In the
late 1970s and early 1980s, Mann's work evolved as she found her voice with
portraits of young women, including her own daughter, Virginia.

In 1988, Mann published "At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women," a controversial


collection that captured the confusing emotions and developing identities of
adolescent girls. The expressive printing style lent a dramatic and brooding mood
to the images. That same year, Mann began photographing her three children in an
intimate, often nude series that would become her most famous work.

"Immediate Family," published in 1992, sparked national debate and even threats of
arrest from federal prosecutors who saw potential child pornography. Mann
maintained that these photographs were natural expressions of a mother's love and
curiosity about her children's bodies and psyches. Critics praised the book for its
raw honesty and revelatory portrayal of childhood.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Mann continued to explore new subject matter while
refining her wet plate collodion technique. In "Still Time" (1994), she presented a
retrospective of her work to date, including early color landscapes and abstract
photographs. Later series like "Deep South" (2005) and "Proud Flesh" (2009), a
study of her husband's muscular dystrophy, demonstrated Mann's ongoing fascination
with the human body and Southern history.

Mann has been the subject of two documentary films: "Blood Ties" (1994) and "What
Remains" (2005). Her work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries across
the United States and internationally. In 2018, the National Gallery of Art
presented a major retrospective, "Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings," which traveled
to several other institutions.

Mann's memoir, "Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs" (2015), explored her
Southern upbringing, introduction to photography at boarding school, and the
influences that shaped her approach to image-making. Her eleventh book, "Sally
Mann: A Thousand Crossings," accompanied the 2018 retrospective.

Throughout her career, Mann has pushed boundaries and sparked conversation with her
unflinching examination of family, identity, mortality, and the American South's
complex heritage. Her work continues to captivate audiences and inspire debate
about the nature of art, intimacy, and social norms.

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