Sally Mann does not seem to have her own personal webpage, but can be found on many others, including, artnet, artencyclopedia, pbs, Robert Koch Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, etc.
Biography
Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951. She has always remained close to her roots. She has photographed in the American South since the 1970s, producing series on portraiture, architecture, landscape and still life. She is perhaps best known for her intimate portraits of her family, her young children and her husband, and for her evocative and resonant landscape work in the American South. . Her work has attracted controversy at times, but it has always been influential, and since her the time of her first solo exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., in 1977, she has attracted a wide audience.
Sally Mann explored various genres as she was maturing in the 1970s: she produced landscapes and architectural photography, and she blended still life with elements of portraiture. But she truly found her metier with her second publication, a study of girlhood entitled At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988). Between 1984 and 1994, she worked on the series, Immediate Family (1992), which focuses on her three children, who were then all aged under ten. While the series touches on ordinary moments in their daily lives – playing, sleeping, eating – it also speaks to larger themes such as death and cultural perceptions of sexuality. In her most recent series, Proud Flesh, taken over a six year interval, Mann turns the camera onto her husband, Larry. The resultant photographs are candid and frank portraits of a man at his most vulnerable moments.
Mann has produced two major series of landscapes: Deep South (Bullfinch Press, 2005) and Mother Land. In What Remains (Bullfinch Press, 2003), she assembled a five-part study of mortality, one which ranges from pictures of the decomposing body of her beloved greyhound, to the site where an armed fugitive committed suicide on her property in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. She has often experimented with color photography, but she has remained most interested in black and white, especially photography’s antique technology. She has long used an 8x10 bellows camera, and has explored platinum and bromoil printing processes. In the mid 1990s she began using the wet plate collodion process to produce pictures which almost seem like hybrids of photography, painting, and sculpture.
Sally Mann lives and works in Lexington, Virginia. A Guggenheim fellow, and a three-times recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine in 2001. She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994), which was nominated for an Academy Award, and What Remains (2007) which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary in 2008. She has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Her photographs can be found in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/sally-mann/
Artist Biography
Quotes by Sally Mann
"...If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it’s not interesting to me."
"It's an odd phenomena, when a feeling becomes a photograph."
From What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
"I look, all the time, at the people and places I care about, and I look with both ardor and frank, aesthetic, cold appraisal. And I look with the passions of both eye and heart, but in that ardent heart, there must also be a splinter of ice."
Artist Statement on Proud Flesh
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/04/interview-dialogue-between-steven.html
The above link is a discussion between interviewer and Sally Mann and Steven Cantor, the man who filmed her movie, What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann.
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I adore Sally Mann's simple yet still very intricate portrayal of life. Mann's approach to art is very different than the last idea entry I wrote, dealing with psycho analysis in depths that are so simply portrayed in Mann's stunning photographs. She produces work in such a way that is very personal, yet still speaks to a wide audience. I chose to display videos rather than single photographs, because there is not one single photograph that speaks louder than the next. I even had trouble picking out videos, as there are an insane amount on the internet. She speaks of love, sex, simplicity, complexity, beauty, death, etc. I admire her ability to portray such concepts without overbearing the viewer with complex ideas. They are made and displayed in such an entrancing way that it is impossible to not be sucked into her imagery and contemplate your own connection to similar objects and circumstances. I would like to find a balance between complex thinking and simple imagery.
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