Sally Mann

”[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.

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SALLY MANN: THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT
Text by John Ravenal, David Levi Strauss, Anne Wilkes Tucker.
APERTURE/VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
ISBN: 9781597111621 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2010
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SALLY MANN: PROUD FLESH
Text by C.D. Wright.
APERTURE/GAGOSIAN GALLERY
ISBN: 9781597111355 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2009
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SALLY MANN: AT TWELVE
Introduction by Ann Beattie.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893812966 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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SALLY MANN: AT TWELVE
Introduction by Ann Beattie.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893813307 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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SALLY MANN: IMMEDIATE FAMILY
Afterword by Reynolds Price.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893815189 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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SALLY MANN: IMMEDIATE FAMILY
Afterword by Reynolds Price.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893815233 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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Sally Mann

Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit

Text by John Ravenal, David Levi Strauss, Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Published by Aperture/Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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.

Sally Mann: Proud Flesh

Text by C.D. Wright.
Published by Aperture/Gagosian Gallery

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.

Sally Mann: At Twelve

Portraits of Young Women

Introduction by Ann Beattie.
Published by Aperture

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

Sally Mann: At Twelve

Portraits of Young Women

Introduction by Ann Beattie.
Published by Aperture

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

Sally Mann: Immediate Family

Afterword by Reynolds Price.
Published by Aperture

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

Sally Mann: Immediate Family

Afterword by Reynolds Price.
Published by Aperture

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