Sally Mann: a thousand crossings

Abstract

"For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work--portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies--is that it is all "bred of a place," the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, uses her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage to ask powerful, provocative questions--about history, identity, race, and religion--that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sections--Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains--and including many works not previously exhibited or published, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a sweeping overview of Mann's artistic achievements."--

Contents

Writing with photographs: Sally Mann's ode to the South, 1969-2017 / Sarah Greenough -- Family -- Flashes of the finite: Sally Mann's familiar terrain / Sarah Kennel -- The land -- The Earth remembers: landscape and history in the work of Sally Mann / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Last measure -- Abide with me: the color of humanity in Sally Mann's world / Hilton Als -- Abide with me -- Torn from time itself: Sally Mann's new avenues from old processes / Malcolm Daniel -- What remains.