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. She studied photography at the Praestegaard Film
School, the Aegean School of Fine Arts, Apeiron, and the
Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshop.
Her early series of photographs of her three children
and husband resulted in a series called "Immediate Family."
The work created an extreme controversy, it gained notoriety
for it's nude photographs of her own children. Some groups
called her work child pornography. These condemnations
have not hurt her career however. Her photographs appear
in most major American art museums. Mann's most recent
work have been of rural and unpopulated areas of Virginia,
most of her recent work is untitled, and in a collection
labeled "Deep South".
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