Sally Mann

photographer · author

Sally Mann is a prominent American photographer known for her large-format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings. Born in Lexington, Virginia, she began photographing at age sixteen and eventually gained international acclaim for her intimate and often controversial series 'Immediate Family' (1992), which documented her three children in their rural Virginia home. Her work explores themes of family, loss, childhood autonomy, and the American landscape. Mann has received numerous prestigious awards, including Guggenheim Fellowships and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Photographic Society. She is also an author, having published several books of photography as well as memoirs and essays.^[1,2]

Themes

family
childhood
landscape
autonomy
memory

Books

Immediate family
photographer · author

€358.00
What remains
photographer · author

€84.00

Works by Sally Mann

Second Sight: The Photographs of Sally Mann 1983 · David R. Godine · book ISBN 978-0-87923-471-3
At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women 1988 · Aperture · book ISBN 978-0-89381-296-6
Immediate Family 1992 · Aperture · book ISBN 978-0-89381-518-9 Primary work for this record.
Still Time 1994 · Aperture · book ISBN 978-0-89381-593-6
What Remains 2003 · Bulfinch · book ISBN 978-0-8212-2843-2
Deep South 2005 · Bulfinch · book ISBN 978-0-8212-2876-0
Proud Flesh 2009 · Gagosian Gallery/Aperture · book ISBN 978-1-59711-135-5
The Flesh and the Spirit 2010 · Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/Aperture · book ISBN 978-1-59711-162-1
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs 2015 · Little, Brown · book ISBN 978-0-316-24776-4
Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington 2016 · Abrams · book ISBN 978-1-4197-2272-1
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings 2018 · Abrams · book ISBN 978-1419729034
Art Work: On the Creative Life 2025 · Harry N. Abrams · book ISBN 978-1419780714

Exhibitions

1977 The Lewis Law Portfolio Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC solo
1987 Sweet Silent Thought North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, Durham, NC solo
1988 Still Time Alleghany Highland Arts and Crafts Center, Clifton Forge, VA solo
1997 Mother Land Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York solo
2006 Sally Mann Gagosian Gallery, New York solo
2007 Sally Mann: Deep South/Battlefields Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden solo
2009 Sally Mann: Proud Flesh Gagosian Gallery/Aperture, New York solo
2010 Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia solo

Awards

1982 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1987 Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Foundation
2006 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Corcoran College of Art and Design
2012 Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society Royal Photographic Society
2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
2021 Prix Pictet

References

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