Sally Mann

(American, born 1951)

Sally Mann is an American photographer known for her black-and-white portraits of her family and documentation of the landscape of the American South. Since the 1970s, she produced a series of photographic portraits, landscapes, and still life’s and is best known for her intimate portraits of her family, including her three young children and husband. Similarly to David Hamilton, Mann has caused controversy with her nude photographs causing repeated outcries and calls for censorship. The complexity of her photographs, including her most famous series Immediate Family (1984–1994), which depicts her three children, who were then all under the age of 10, explores the time between childhood and adolescence. “As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs,” she reflected. “And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.” Born Sally Turner Munger on May 1, 1951 in Lexington, VA, she received her BA and later her MA from Hollins College in Virginia before working as an architectural photographer for Washington and Lee University during the mid-1970s. Throughout the following decade, the artist’s career grew as she began producing books of photography, including At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988), which captures developing identities of 12-year-old-girls from her hometown and includes her notable work, Candy Cigarette (1989). From 1999 until his death in 2011, Mann photographed Cy Twombly’s studio in her hometown of Lexington, VA. Using large-format cameras to capture fine details, Mann’s images appear antique due to her interest in early photographic technology, as well as revisiting the 19th-century process of wet collodion. Her work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Mann currently lives and works in Lexington, VA.

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Sally Mann Artworks

Sally Mann (1,013 results)

Night Blooming Cereus, 1991

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Night Blooming Cereus, 1991

Sale Date: April 30, 2024

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Shiva, 1991

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Sale Date: April 30, 2024

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The Three Graces, 1994

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The Three Graces, 1994

Sale Date: April 30, 2024

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Untitled (Deep South #3), 1998

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Untitled (Deep South #3), 1998

Sale Date: April 30, 2024

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Virginia at 6, 1991

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Virginia at 6, 1991

Sale Date: April 10, 2024

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Goosebumps, 1990

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Goosebumps, 1990

Sale Date: April 10, 2024

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Untitled (Leah and her Father) (from..., 1983–1985

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Untitled (Leah and her Father) (from..., 1983–1985

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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'Sunday Funnies' (from 'Immediate Family') , 1991

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'Sunday Funnies' (from 'Immediate Family') , 1991

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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Battlefields, Antietam #11 (Smoke), 2000

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Battlefields, Antietam #11 (Smoke), 2000

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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Virginia at 9, 1994

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Virginia at 9, 1994

Sale Date: April 5, 2024

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Model Child. 1994, 1994

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Model Child. 1994, 1994

Sale Date: April 3, 2024

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Vinland, 1992, 1992

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Vinland, 1992, 1992

Sale Date: April 3, 2024

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Juliet in White Chair (from the At Twelve..., 1982

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Juliet in White Chair (from the At Twelve..., 1982

Sale Date: April 3, 2024

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Equivalent #2, 1987

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Equivalent #2, 1987

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Equivalent #1, 1985

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Equivalent #1, 1985

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Jessie in the Wind, 1989

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Jessie in the Wind, 1989

Sale Date: December 14, 2023

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Untitled (Deep South #27), 1998

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Untitled (Deep South #27), 1998

Sale Date: December 14, 2023

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Last Light, 1990

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Last Light, 1990

Sale Date: November 10, 2023

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Emmett and Garter Belt, 1990

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Emmett and Garter Belt, 1990

Sale Date: November 10, 2023

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Untitled (Two Skeletons) (from 'Body Farm'), 2001

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Untitled (Two Skeletons) (from 'Body Farm'), 2001

Sale Date: November 1, 2023

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Untitled (Skull) (from 'Body Farm'), 2000

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Untitled (Skull) (from 'Body Farm'), 2000

Sale Date: November 1, 2023

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Untitled (Torso) (from 'Body Farm'), 2000

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Untitled (Torso) (from 'Body Farm'), 2000

Sale Date: November 1, 2023

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Photographs and Poetry, Limited Edition..., 2005

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Photographs and Poetry, Limited Edition..., 2005

Sale Date: November 24, 2023

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Milk, 1992

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Sale Date: October 17, 2023

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