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Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Easter Dress
Easter Dress, 1986
Gelatin silver print
Patricia and David Schulte
Image © Sally MannMann’s daughter Jessie holds aloft the skirt of a white dress originally worn by Mann herself and made by Jessie’s great-grandmother and namesake. The scattered and seemingly haphazard composition suggests that Mann snapped the picture on the fly. In fact, Mann used a large-format camera on a tripod, and the scene was rehearsed multiple times until she achieved the desired tension between the peripheral figures, who all face different directions, and Jessie, who looks directly into the camera.
On the Maury
On the Maury, 1992
Gelatin silver print
Private collection
Image © Sally MannThe Maury River, site of exploration, amusement, and physical daring, played a central role in the lives of Mann and her family. It also assumes a significant position in her photographs, signifying themes of transition, the passage time, and death. Here, the family appears like explorers drifting downstream as the river propels them into the future, away from the camera’s reach.
Deep South, Untitled (Three Drips)
Deep South, Untitled (Three Drips), 1998
Gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Commit
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
A Thousand Crossings
—John Glenday, “Landscape with Flying Man,” 2009
For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born in 1951) has made experimental and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: family, desire, mortality, memory, and nature’s indifference to the human condition. Her broad body of work is all bred of a place, the American South. A native of Lexington, Virginia, Mann has long examined the tension between her devotion to the region and her awareness of its fraught past. Her photographs pose provocative questions about identity, history, race, and spirituality. This exhibition considers how the legacy of the South—as both homeland and graveyard, refuge and battleground—has shaped the artist’s career and continues to inform the American experience.
This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Generously supported at the J. Paul Getty Museum by GAGOSIAN
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Family
—Sally Mann, 1992
From 1985 to 1994, Mann photographed her three children—Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia—at the family’s remote summer cabin in the Shenandoah Valley, in western Virginia.