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Sally Mann's provocative black-and-white photographs of contemporary
Southern American landscapes possess a feeling of time past.
Using antique,
damaged camera lenses and 19th-century printing methods, her images merge human and natural histories of place.
 Mann comments
that "memory is most
often an act of will – and once we
conjure it, we are
unashamed to overlay
it with sentiment."
In her murky, mundane photographs
of
present-day fields, rivers and trees, a
hidden past emerges that is as dark
and
painful as it is beautiful.
Sally Mann was born in
Lexington, VA,
where she lives and works today. She
received a BA and MA from Hollins College and
has exhibited and taught
nationally.
Her photographs are in the permanent collections of several major
museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, NY, the San
Francisco Museum of
Modern Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
She was awarded three NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship.
Image credit:
Sally Mann
Untitled, Deep South #34, 1998
Gelatin silver print, toned with
tea
37.25 x 47 inches
Courtesy of Cook Fine Art, New York, NY
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