Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951 in Lexington , Virginia , USA ) is an American photographer . She received her Bachelor of Arts (art diploma) in 1974 and a master’s degree in 1975. Mann lives and works in Lexington.
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Sally Mann became known beyond the USA with a series of 65 black and white photos of children, especially her own, taken with a large format camera : Jessie, Virginia and Emmett. This photo book, published in 1992 under the title "Immediate Family", earned her a lot of attention, mainly because of the family intimacy. Richard Woodward wrote in the New York Times :
- “With these black and white portraits [...] she hit a nerve. With eidetic clarity, she took up the fears and protective tenderness of all parents for their children. A half-naked, androgynous child, smeared with dirt and patches of grass, looks up from a leafy yard. Sleek, pale shapes move with proud ease between the thick torsos of the elderly. The pictures tell of a familiar family past that was well known to us, which now seemed far away and could never be retrieved. "
The collection also earned Sally Mann criticism and moral allegations of child pornography for the nude depiction of minors.
Later work focused on landscapes, especially forests in Sally Mann's home in the southern United States, with many references to the American Civil War . After a riding accident in 2006 with a serious back injury, she took numerous self-portraits. Later photos portray her husband Larry and his suffering from muscular dystrophy .
Sally Mann's work can be seen in museums in the United States and Europe, including the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art . She won several prizes, including that of the Guggenheim Museum in New York; In 2016 her book Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction in the Nonfiction category.
Works (selection)
- At Twelve. Portraits of Young Women . Aperture, New York 1991, ISBN 0-89381-330-3 .
- Immediate Family. Edition Knesebeck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89660-013-3 .
- Still time . Aperture, New York 1996, ISBN 0-89381-593-4 .
- What Remains . Little, Brown & Comp., Boston, Mass. 2003, ISBN 0-8212-2843-9 .
- Deep South . Bulfinch Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8212-2876-5 .
- Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2015. ISBN 978-0-316-24776-4 .
literature
- Erik Stephan u. a. (Ed.): Sally Mann, deep south, battlefields . Edition Jena-Kultur, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-930128-82-2 .
- Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0
Movie
- Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann Documentary (US 1994).
Web links
- Official website
- web link Immediate Family and Landscape pictures by Strother Fine Art.
- Sally Mann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview (TV recording) , November 12, 2003, Charlie Rose Show, (English)
- Pictures by Sally Mann
- Exhibition of life's work under the title "A Matter of Time" at the Fotografiska Museet Stockholm (summer 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ portrayed by Michelle Hood
- ^ "The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann" , New York Times September 27, 1992. Translated from the American
- ↑ See, inter alia, Helsingin Sanomat , Finland : "Sally Mann's photographs lead to request for police investigation", or The Post-Tribune (Merrillville IN), December 18, 1997: "Photo Book Challenged as Indecent".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Man, Sally |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lexington , Virginia , USA |