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”[Mann’s photographs] suggest that the camera is as adept at depicting the desires of the subconscious as it is in rendering the shapes of everyday life.”
Andy Grundberg, The New York Times
Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her husband and three children, whom she continues to photograph as part of an ongoing project.
Published by Aperture. Afterword by Reynolds Price.
First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. With sublime dignity, acute wit and feral grace, Sally Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy. This reissue of Immediate Family has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann's original prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness and sumptuousness true to the original edition. Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1951. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held by such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. She has received numerous honors, including a doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C., and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 60 duotone.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/23/2015 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Afterword by Reynolds Price.
First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann’s extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. With sublime dignity, acute wit and feral grace, Sally Mann’s pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child’s simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy--the holding on and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in these astonishing photographs. This reissue of Immediate Family has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann’s original prints, which were taken with an 8 x 10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness and sumptuousness true to the original edition. Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951, Sally Mann is one of America’s most renowned photographers. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. She has received numerous honors, including a doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC, and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 60 duotone.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/30/2014 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Text by John Ravenal, David Levi Strauss, Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit is the first in-depth exploration of this world-renowned artist's approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling often difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Mann's earliest platinum prints from the late 1970s, Polaroid still lifes, early color work of her children, haunting landscape images, recent self-portraits and nude studies of her husband. These series document Mann's interest in the body as principal subject, with the associated issues of vulnerability and mortality lending an elegiac note to her images. In bringing them together, author and curator John Ravenal examines the varied ways in which Mann's experimental approach, including ambrotypes and gelatin-silver prints made from collodian wet-plate negatives, moves her subjects from the corporeal to the ethereal. Ravenal also supplies a comprehensive introduction as well as individual entries on each series, and essays by David Levi Strauss ("Eros, Psyche, and the Mendacity of Photography") and Anne Wilkes Tucker ("Living Memory") add different, but equally illuminating perspectives to this work. Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit is a must for any serious library of photographic literature, students, scholars, collectors and others interested in her work. Sally Mann (born 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Mann's many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994) and Proud Flesh (2009). She lives in Lexington, Virginia.
PUBLISHER Aperture/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 204 pgs / 225 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2010 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture/Gagosian Gallery. Text by C.D. Wright.
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 imagery and technique, Mann's work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, artist and subject, life and death, Mann investigates the bonds between husband and wife. Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Sally Mann:Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers, as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender and always unblinkingly honest.
PUBLISHER Aperture/Gagosian Gallery
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 12 x 14 in. / 64 pgs / 33 tritone.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2009 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Introduction by Ann Beattie.
At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue. Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. “Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets.” --Karen Lipson,Newsday
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 56 pgs / 40 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Introduction by Ann Beattie.
At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, “These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue.” Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. “Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets.” --Karen Lipson,Newsday
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 56 pgs / 40 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Afterword by Reynolds Price.
Mann's subjects are her small children (a boy, a girl and a new baby), often shot when they're sick or hurt or just naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes, vomiting--the usual trials of childhood--can be alarmingly beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann's portrait album. Her ambivalence about motherhood--her delight and despair--pushes Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is astonishing. --Vince Aletti, The Village Voice
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 74 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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Published by Aperture. Afterword by Reynolds Price.
Mann's subjects are her small children (a boy, a girl and a new baby), often shot when they're sick or hurt or just naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes, vomiting--the usual trials of childhood--can be alarmingly beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann's portrait album. Her ambivalence about motherhood--her delight and despair--pushes Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is astonishing. --Vince Aletti, The Village Voice
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 74 reproductions throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/15/2005 No longer our product
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PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780893815233TRADE List Price: $29.95 CAD $35.00
Sally Mann: Immediate Family
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit
Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
Sally Mann: At Twelve
Sally Mann: At Twelve
Sally Mann: Immediate Family
Sally Mann: Immediate Family