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Sally MANN (1951- )

Emmet, Jessie and Virginia _ Candy Cigarette
1989 _ 1990

Sold for
US$8,000 _ US$32,000
Estimate
US$10,000-$15,000 _ US$12,000-$18,000

Yard Eggs _ Angel
1992 _ 1992

Sold for
US$4,000 _ US$7,500
Estimate
US$4,000-$6,000 _ US$8,000-$12,000

«Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called “Immediate Family” (...) Using damaged lenses and a camera that requires the artist to use her hand as a shutter, these photographs are marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century. [...pbs...]

Sally Mann «always remained close to her roots. She has photographed in the American South since the 1970s, producing series on portraiture, architecture, landscape and still life. She is perhaps best known for her intimate portraits of her family, her young children and her husband, and for her evocative and resonant landscape work in the American South (...) she blended still life with elements of portraiture. Between 1984 and 1994, she worked on the series, Immediate Family (1992), which focuses on her three children, who were then all aged under ten. While the series touches on ordinary moments in their daily lives – playing, sleeping, eating – it also speaks to larger themes such as death and cultural perceptions of sexuality. [...GG...]