Modern photography: Sally Mann
April 3rd, 2007
Sally Mann (born on May 1, 1951 in Virginia) is a recognized American photographer. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Corcoran Gallery of Art, among many others. She was named “Photographer of the Year” for 2001 by Time magazine.
She first achieved prominence with a one-woman exhibition in late 1977 at the Corcoran Galley of Art in Washington, D.C., showing surrealistic images she took of the construction of a new law building at Washington and Lee. Mann’s work has stimulated controversy beginning with her second published collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988). To critics, these portraits “captured the confusing emotions and developing sexual identities of girls at that transitional age, one foot in childhood and one foot in the adult world.”, but for many the photographs portray a child’s innocence.
Her next collection was Immediate Family in 1992. These images gained notoriety for including nude photographs of her own children. Some critics called her work ‘child pornography’. The condemnations of her work, still considered controversial by some, have not hurt her career. Her photographs continue to be shown in and collected by most major American art galleries and museums.
A recent collection of work, entitled What Remains (2005) features dream or nightmare-like images made with the antiquated glass plate process collodion, of rustic scenes in the pictorialist style, some including dead and decaying human bodies. Another series in the same body of work features images of the Antietam battlefield. The book closes with a series of images of Mann’s children. Many of the images appear to have been highly manipulated - scratched and otherwise maimed for artistic intent - however this is just a result of the imperfect collodion process. Mann has admitted to not wanting to perfect this process, as she feels the unintentional streaks and scratches add something to her photographs.
Mann’s most recent works have been landscapes or “land portraits” of rural areas of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. Most of it is untitled, and can be found in a collection called Deep South. These images were photographed using damaged lenses and cameras, creating a ghostlike effect and producing images full of light leaks.
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