Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) has remained close
to her roots, photographing in the American South since the 1970s.
She is renowned for her resonant landscape work, trenchant studies
of mortality, and intimate portraits of her children and husband. A
Guggenheim fellow and three-time recipient of the National
Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named America's Best
Photographer by Time magazine in 2001. She has been the subject of
two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994) and What Remains (2007), and
in 2011 she presented at Harvard the William E. Massey Sr. Lecture
in American Studies, which planted the seeds for Hold Still: A
Memoir with Photographs (2015). Mann's work has been the subject of
major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC. Mann's other Aperture books include Immediate
Family (1992, reissued 2014), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh
(copublished with Gagosian Gallery, 2009), and The Flesh and The
Spirit (copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
2010).
Ann Beattie (introduction), a preeminent writer of her generation,
has written numerous books, including the novels Chilly Scenes of
Winter (1976) and Falling in Place (1980); the short-story
collections Where You'll Find Me (1986) and The Accomplished Guest
(2017); and Alex Katz (1987), a monograph of the painter's work.
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