The soul makes a thousand crossings, the heart, just one. 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. Generously supported at the J. Download the exhibition object checklist.
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Sally Mann
Sally Mann: Sally Mann
Sally Mann HonFRPS born Sally Turner Munger ; May 1, [1] is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Born in Lexington, Virginia , Mann was the third of three children. Her father, Robert S. Munger, was a general practitioner , and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
Ghostly photographs of the Virginia swamp once used by escapee slaves win Prix Pictet
Now Mann has written a memoir, and in it she explains the strange and magical thinking behind some of those infamous family photographs. Hold Still , multigenerational in its scope, southern in its humor, and Nabokovian in its ambition, is gorgeously written and convincing. It is also spiked with family snapshots, outtakes of her well-known photographs, bad and funny report cards, bizarre stories, and terrible mental images that will be hard for some readers to shake. One moment in particular stands out for its horror but also offers a key to understanding how Mann sees photography and its tenuous but powerful ties to reality and memory.
The series, titled Blackwater, was shot near so-called Point Comfort, "the grotesquely ill-named spit of land where the first slave ship docked in America," Mann writes of the series, referring to the boat that arrived from Africa in holding 20 prisoners. The captives were sold at auction, ushering in the long era of slavery in what would become the United States of America. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the densely forested swamp was used by slaves as a forbidding place to hide in when they attempted to escape the bondage of their owners.
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25.07.2022 1:56:41 Timon:
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