![]() ![]() In the preface to the book, Ann Beattie says "when a girl is twelve years old, she often wants – or says she wants – less involvement with adults. The images "captured the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls expressive printing style lent a dramatic and brooding mood to all of her images". Her second collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, published in 1988, stimulated minor controversy. At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women "Untitled" by Mann (1988) On Location with: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graciela Iturbide, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann, Andres Serrano, Clarissa Sligh" which was illustrated with photographs. ![]() In 1995, she was featured in an issue of "Aperture". While Mann explored a variety of genres as she was maturing in the 1970s, she truly found her trade with her book, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (Aperture, 1988). Some of those surrealistic images were also included as part of her first book, Second Sight, published in 1984. In the mid-1970s she photographed the construction of its new law school building, the Lewis Hall (now the Sydney Lewis Hall), leading to her first solo exhibition in late 1977 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC The Corcoran Gallery of Art published a catalogue of Mann's images titled "The Lewis Law Portfolio". Early career Īfter graduation from Hollins College, Mann worked as a photographer at Washington and Lee University. Mann has never had any formal training in photography and she "never read about photography". She made her photographic debut at Putney with an image of a nude classmate. She took up photography at Putney where, she claims, her motive was to be alone in the darkroom with her boyfriend. She earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1974 and a MA in creative writing in 1975. Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. Most of her photographs and writings are tied to Lexington, Virginia. Mann began to photograph when she was sixteen. Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest in photography his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today. Mann was raised by an atheist and compassionate father who allowed Mann to be "benignly neglected". ![]() Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Sally Mann HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs-at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.īorn in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children. Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2016.Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society, 2012.Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, 2006.National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship: 1982, 1988, 1992. ![]()
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