"Sally Mann is chatty and open about nearly any subject imaginable. The photographer easily gets carried off in conversation, finding it hard to resist sharing stories about anything from her friend's mother who had a lobotomy, to the time the poet Forrest Gander happened to drop by unannounced (the moment turned into a lifelong friendship). A large-format camera at Sally Mann's Lexington studio; tools and objects on a workbench;"
"She gradually built a respectable following for her atmospheric photos that drip with the soul of the US south. But in 1992, she was catapulted into the centre of the US's culture wars when she released her third book of photos, Immediate Family. The book was ostensibly a homage to life with her husband, Larry, and three young children on her beloved farm, and was chock full of beautiful black-and-white images capturing family moments shaded with ethereal transcendence, loving intimacy and bracing intrusiveness."
Sally Mann speaks with candid openness and an eagerness to share personal stories, exhibiting a restless energy and intense curiosity that fuel her work. Born in Lexington in 1951, she grew up in a bohemian household, received a camera from her country-doctor father, and experienced early darkroom exhilaration at school. Mann developed a reputation for atmospheric black-and-white photographs that capture the spirit of the American South. In 1992, her third book, Immediate Family, presented intimate images of her husband and three children on their farm, and sparked significant controversy amid broader cultural debates.
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