Sally Mann makes pictures of children - luminously beautiful black-and -white images of mysteriously elfin children around her rural home in Lexington, Virginia. These are riveting, enigmatic narrative images...
Ken Johnson
Art in America
Sally's Mann astonishing photographs inspires me greatly.
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| Emmet, Jessie, and Virginia, 1989 |
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| The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude, 1987 |
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| Candy Cigarette, 1989 |
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| Night-blooming Cereus, 1988 |
In 2006, Sally Mann suffered an accident while horseback riding in the mountains and spent long time recovering. She describes the incident as traumatic. Over the course of a year, she took more than 200 self-portraits—mainly of her face and torso—as a kind of art therapy. The high-contrast black and white images are true to her style.
