SALLY MANN EVENTS INsight
CONVERSATIONJune 8, 4–6pm
Paramount Theater EXHIBIT"The Given: Studio
Work " June 1- August 18, Second Street Gallery SCREENING"What Remains" June 9,
1pm Vinegar Hill Theater
Sally Mann lives and works in Lexington,
Virginia, where she was born in 1951.
One of America's most renowned photographers, she has exhibited
work around the world and was designated "America's Best
Photographer" in 2001 by Time magazine.
Mann has won numerous awards, including three National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowships, the Century Award from the Museum
of Photographic Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is
housed in numerous public and private collections including
The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and The
National Museum of Modern Art, in Tokyo.
In 2002, two documentaries about her work aired on PBS; a feature
length film, "What Remains", debuted at the 2006 Sundance
Film Festival and will air on HBO in 2007. “What Remains”
will also be shown Saturday June 9 at Charlottesville’s
Vinegar Hill Theater with a Q&A session with Sally Mann
to follow.
She has published seven monographs, among them Immediate Family,
a series of startlingly intimate images of her three children,
and Deep South, a compilation of her haunting and otherworldly
landscape imagery.
She works almost exclusively in large format, most recently
employing the wet-plate collodion process, which will be on
display at her exhibit at Second Street Gallery.
"Few photographers of any time or
place have matched Sally Mann's steadiness of simple eyesight,
her serene technical brilliance and the clearly communicated
eloquence she derives from her subjects, human and otherwise-subjects
observed with an ardor that is all but indistinguishable from
love." –Reynolds Price, in Time magazine.
"I want
my work to be about the people and places that I love,
in all their complexity & and the hope is that
it will have a universal resonance in spite of being
so personal. To that end, I'm not afraid to use lyricism,
romance and intimacy which, like venom to the snake-handlers,
offer terrible risk but also a ticket to transcendence."
—Sally Mann
