Sally Mann first achieved recognition for her work towards the end of the 1980s when photographs she had taken of her family, especially of her three children, began to attract attention. She created several series full of intimacy and sensuality featuring moving images of a childhood very much attached to nature, like the artist experienced her in own childhood. Later, she turned her attention to pure landscape photography, producing equally extensive series. These images reveal the artist’s deep love for her native land, the American South, a sparsely populated, rural area with lush vegetation. It is the atmospheric impact that makes her images so outstanding. They radiate a lyric and nostalgic mood, expressing a strong sense of the beauty and the history of this land. Time seems to stand still in Sally Mann’s landscapes. This impression is enhanced by her obvious attention to craftsmanship. She uses a hundred-year-old large-format camera and prefers early, complex techniques, a sort of tribute to the pioneers of landscape photography.
Distortions, overexposures or scratching created intentionally in the dark room emphasize the dreamlike atmosphere in her photographs. Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she still lives and works. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is represented in numerous museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Sally Mann has also been the recipient of several important awards including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Exhibitions
Works
Exhibitions
Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., travelled to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Gagosian, Paris, France; Rome, Italy; Athens, Greece
Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, USA
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
VA Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve Paris, France
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway; Tennis Palace Museum, Helsinki, Finland; The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark; Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK, et al.
Kunstsammlung im Stadtmuseum, Jena, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve Milan, Italy
Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Gagosian, Paris, France
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; travelled to: Virginia Legislature, Richmond, VA; The Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville, VA; Piedmont Arts & Family Day, Martinsville, VA; Suffolk Arts League, Suffolk, VA, USA among others
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; travelled to: Hurkamp Park, Fredericksburg, VA, USA; Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA, USA; Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC, USA
University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, Louisville, KY, USA
Marquette, MI, USA
The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA, USA
Un acercamiento al retrato contemporáneo en la Colección CA2M, Red Itiner of Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Neal Guma Fine Art, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, USA
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; travelled to: Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; travelled to: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Charlotte, NC, USA
La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The American Museum in Britain, Bath, UK
Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Netherlands
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA