Sally Mann. SALLY MANN #1 Scarred Tree, 1998 Gelatin silver print 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm) Ed. of 10 Sally Mann Listed Exhibitions (56 Kb)Sally Mann Bibliography (99 Kb) Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951. She has always remained close to her roots. Sally Mann explored various genres as she was maturing in the 1970s: she produced landscapes and architectural photography, and she blended still life with elements of portraiture. Mann has produced two major series of landscapes: Deep South (Bullfinch Press, 2005) and Mother Land. Sally Mann lives and works in Lexington, Virginia. Sally Mann. Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.
Early life and education[edit] Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children and the only daughter. Her father, Robert S. Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. Early career[edit] After graduation, Mann worked as a photographer at Washington and Lee University. At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women[edit] "Untitled" by Sally Mann (1988) Her second collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, published in 1988, stimulated minor controversy. In one image from the book (shown to the right), Mann says that the young girl was extremely reluctant to stand closer to her mother’s boyfriend. Le Mausolée de Sally Mann.
1Au cœur du 3e arrondissement se sont trouvés réunis les 24 portraits des visages des 3 enfants de Sally Mann, Emmet, Jessie et Virginia. L’exposition s’étalait sur 3 niveaux : au rez-de-chaussée étaient disposés les portraits de Virginia, la benjamine ; au niveau de l’entresol, Jessie, la cadette et enfin au 1er étage ceux d’Emmet, l’aîné, auxquels s’était ajouté un triptyque des 3 enfants (fig. 1). Fig. 1 2Il est difficile de distinguer le sexe et le visage de chacun tant la technique employée dans ces images peut troubler le spectateur. En effet, certaines parties de l’image tendent à disparaître au profit de la matière photographique.
Les photographies sont pour la plupart surexposées, sous-exposées (fig. 4) ou voilées (fig. 2) induisant une disparition partielle ou quasi-totale de l’image et par la même, du sujet photographié. Fig. 4 Fig 2 3Le format imposant des photographies (127 x 101, 6 cm) renforce l’impression de disparition de la figure au profit du procédé. Fig. 3 Fig. 5 Fig. 6. Sally Mann on artnet. Biography Sally Mann is an American photographer known for her intimate black-and-white portraits of her family and for her documentation of the landscape of the American South. Her images appear antique due to her interest in early photographic technology; Mann employs an 8 x 10 bellows camera to achieve this effect, in addition to experimenting with platinum and bromide printing processes. Similarly to David Hamilton, Mann has caused controversy with her nude photographs. Her young children appeared unclothed in her series Immediate Family (1984–1994), causing repeated outcries and calls for censorship.
“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. Sally Mann. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Pour les articles homonymes, voir Mann. Sally Mann Sally Mann, novembre 2007 Ses œuvres et collections sont présentes dans de nombreux musées aux États-Unis et dans le monde : entre autres au Museum of Modern Art de New York, au musée d'art moderne de San Francisco, au musée de l'université Harvard à Cambridge, au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art… De nombreuses expositions lui sont régulièrement consacrées à travers le monde. Elle photographie le plus souvent en noir et blanc en format 8×10. Elle travaille elle-même ses épreuves dans son laboratoire personnel. Elle réalise ses prises de vue surtout en extérieur, la plupart du temps dans sa grande propriété à Lexington, isolée dans les bois des collines Blue Ridge Mountains. Ses photographies jouent sur des contrastes profonds, conférant à des sujets de la vie quotidienne un caractère sensuel et mystérieux, parfois mystique.
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