Sally Mann

Sally Mann is best known for her resonant landscape work in the American South and for her intimate family portraits. Mann has several published books including: At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988), Immediate Family (1992), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005) and Proud Flesh (2009). Mann has remained most interested in black and white photography. In the mid 1990s, she began using the wet plate collodion process. Mann lives and works in Lexington, Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow and a three-times recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine in 2001. Mann has major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C and the Virginia Museum of Art. Her photographs can be found in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.