Sally Mann
Born in 1951 · United States
Family, memory and the landscape of the South.
The story
Sally Mann works from her immediate surroundings in Virginia. After the portraits of At Twelve and Immediate Family, she explored landscapes, memory and mortality more extensively. She uses historic processes whose accidents can become part of the image. Her work questions the boundaries between family intimacy, public representation and the collective history of the American South.
Understanding the work
Observe photographic texture without mistaking it for simple nostalgia. Connect the landscape, the title and the historical traces the image allows us to sense.
Key works and series
At Twelve; Immediate Family; Deep South; What Remains.
Sources & further exploration
Works in collections.
1 recordsPhotographs to explore on museum and library websites, with titles, dates and processes. Each link opens the collection record and its image where one is available.
