About This Image

Signed in pencil on verso.

Sally Mann’s iconic series "Immediate Family" (1984–91) features intimate black-and-white photographs of the artist's children, who eat, sleep, and play--dressed or nude--in an idyllic Southern landscape. The pictures earned the artist accolades and sparked controversy regarding the ethics of using children in art. Mann's portraits of girls at 12 years old offer a similarly provocative meditation on the moment between innocence and sophistication. The artist has also taken poignant landscape photographs and captured historic architecture throughout the American South.

Throughout her oeuvre, Mann has used large-format cameras--sometimes with damaged lenses that admit light leaks and imperfections--to reveal her subjects' uncanny beauty. She has also experimented with the 19th-century process of wet collodion on glass plates.

A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a four-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Mann has been the subject of numerous international solo shows. Her work has sold for six figures at auction.

Her work is in the collections of the following museums: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Art Institute of Chicago; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among others.

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