1. Sally Mann was born on Sally Turner Munger; May 1,1951 and is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
Sally Mann's father, Robert S Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
Sally Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest; his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today.
Sally Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College.
Sally Mann took up photography at Putney where, she has said, her motive was to be alone in the darkroom with her boyfriend.
Sally Mann has never had any formal training in photography and she "never read[s] about photography".
The Corcoran Gallery of Art published a catalogue of Sally Mann's images titled "The Lewis Law Portfolio".
The girls photographed in this series are shown "vulnerable in their youthfulness" but Sally Mann focuses on the strength that the girls possess.
Sally Mann said that she thought it was strange because "it was their peculiar familiarity that had provoked this photograph in the first place".
Sally Mann didn't want to crop out the girl's elbow but the girl refused to move in closer.
Sally Mann says that she now looks at this photograph with "a jaggy chill of realization".
Sally Mann became widely known for Immediate Family, her third collection, first exhibited in 1990 by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City and published as a monograph in 1992.
Sally Mann considered these photographs to be "natural through the eyes of a mother, since she has seen her children in every state: happy, sad, playful, sick, bloodied, angry and even naked".
Sally Mann's work takes these idyllic photos meant for semi-private consumption and brings them to the public sphere.
Dr Aaron Esman, a child psychiatrist at the Payne Whitney Clinic believes that Sally Mann is serious about her work and that she has "no intention to jeopardize her children or use them for pornographic images".
The second, What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann was directed by Steve Cantor.
Sally Mann's seventh book, Proud Flesh, published in 2009, is a study taken over six years of the effects of muscular dystrophy on her husband Larry Sally Mann.
Sally Mann's pictures are imbued with an amazing degree of soul.
In May 2011 Sally Mann delivered the three-day Massey Lecture Series at Harvard, speaking about how her extended family influenced her work.
Sally Mann's memoir Hold Still arose as a companion to the lecture.
In June 2011, Sally Mann sat down with one of her contemporaries, Nan Goldin, at Look3 Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph.
Sally Mann's ninth book, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, released May 12,2015, is a melding of a memoir of her youth, an examination of some major influences of her life, and reflections on how photography shapes one's view of the world.
Sally Mann assesses Gee-Gee, a black woman who was like a parent to her, who opened Mann's eyes to race relations and exploitation; her relationship with local artist Cy Twombly, and her father's genteel southern legacy and his eventual death.
Sally Mann ponders the relationship Robert S Munger, her great-grandfather and southern industrialist, had with his workers.
An article by Sally Mann adapted from this book appeared with photographs in The New York Times Magazine in April 2015.
Mann's eleventh book, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, written by Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel, is a large compendium of works spanning 40 years, with 230 photographs by Mann.
Sally Mann "borrowed the idea, using the poem as a template for [her] own exploration".
Sally Mann published a series of tintype photographs of a swamp that was known to have served as refuge for escaped slaves.
Sally Mann, born and raised in Virginia, is the daughter of Robert Munger and Elizabeth Munger.
Virginia Carter, born in 1894, raised Sally Mann and her two brothers and was an admirable woman.
In 1969 Sally met Larry Mann, and in 1970 they married.
Sally Mann died by suicide in 2016, after battling with schizophrenia following a life-threatening car collision.