| Names: | Born: Sally Turner Munger
Other: Sally Munger
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| | Dates: | 1951, 1 May - | | Born: | US, VA, Lexington | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Female |
American portrait and landscape photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Mann has lived her life in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (except for years at Bennington College, Vermont). She earned an MA (1975) in writing from Hollins College, although her considerable talent seems to be in recognizing and shaping intricate visual statements. Her work could be deemed "traditional" in its execution with an 8 x 10 view camera from which she makes exquisite black and white prints sometimes using wet plate collodion negatives. She is best known for a series of work that documents her own family, especially the lives of her three children (images of husband, Larry, have yet to be included in much of her public work). Immediate Family was published in 1992 (concurrent exhibition) and instigated intense controversy over the explicit frankness and intimacy revealed in some photographs of the children in various states of nudity. The debate about the propriety of showing adolescent sexuality or loss of innocence is, perhaps, not one to be won or lost on the photographic evidence, but waged by those with a variance in their interpretations of those images. Her work is often compared to that of Emmet Gowin (also originally from Virginia), however, Mann’s children seem to animate her strongest work from the 1980s and 1990s — the unvarnished passage from childhood to young adult. Mann has previously photographed girls at the age of twelve and is working on landscape images of Virginia, Georgia, and other locations (Civil War battlefields). Her talent as a writer/artist is elegantly demonstrated in her most recent publications. In Deep South (2005) the images are more ethereal and mystical as she allows the hand-applied collodion more autonomy in its marriage with light.
(Author: Ken White - Rochester Institute of Technology)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Mann, Sally, 1983, Second Sight, (Boston: David R. Godine) isbn-10: 0879234717 isbn-13: 9780879234713 [Δ]
Mann, Sally, 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Mann, Sally, 1992, Immediate Family, (New York: Aperture) isbn-13: 978-0893815189 [Δ]
Mann, Sally, 1994, Still Time, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Mann, Sally, 2003, What Remains, (New York: Bulfinch Press) [Δ]
Mann, Sally, 2005, Deep South, (Boston: Bulfinch Press) [Δ]
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