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| Sally Mann snippet |
| Immediate Family 1992 gained notoriety for its nude photographs of
her own children. |
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| Sally Mann |
| Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American
photographer. |
| Mann was born in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and
attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World
College. Mann received a B.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Hollins College
(now Hollins University) in 1974 and then took an M.A. in Writing. Mann
was given her first show in 1978, I Shall Save One Land Unvisited, a
group show curated by the poet and photographer Jonathan Williams. Mann
still lives in Lexington with her husband and three children, Jessie,
Emmet, and Virginia. |
| Much of Mann's work has been controversial. She first gained
notoriety with her second published collection, At Twelve: Portraits of
Young Women (1988). According to critics, those portraits "captured the
confusing emotions and developing sexual identities of girls at that
transitional age, one foot in childhood and one foot in the adult
world." |
| Immediate Family 1992 gained notoriety for its nude photographs of
her own children. |
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