which focused on her three children, then all under the age of twelve. These workstouch on ordinary moments—playing, sleeping, and eating—as well as larger themes such as death and cultural perceptions of sexuality and motherhood. From 1999 to 2012, Mann photographed Cy Twombly’s warmly lit...
This is how Sally Mann chooses to photograph her daughter Jessie. Since their infancy Mann, a professional photographer, has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia. "The place", Mann says, "is important". It is the ...
Children, landscape, lovers--these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann's take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann's ...
Still Time is a 1994 photography book by Sally Mann. The book is published by Aperture and was released alongside Mann's exhibition for the photographs. The book consists of 60 four-color and duotone images of landscapes as well as abstract photography and ...
Mann has regularly faced controversy about her depictions of children. She became known for photographing her home in Lexington, Virginia; some of her shots have featured her own children in the nude. These photographs do not depict sexual activity...
Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children--Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia--reveal truths that embody the individuality of her immediate family and ultimately take on a universal quality. Mann states that her...
But Mann didn’t carve everything out of her soul: “I left out parts of my life, and I was really careful; I tried not to settle scores.” Before publication, she showed the manuscript to her two brothers, her cousins, her children, even former school friends—and took out parts or...
‘obscenity.’ But after local officials denounced the exhibit, police entered the museum and removed the artwork — ostensibly to investigate ‘child abuse,’ even though Mann’s now-adult children still support their mother and have never suggested they were abused,” the three ...
—Sally Mann Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Born in ...