Sally Mann: Immediate Family

Sally Mann is one of America’s most renowned photographers. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. She has received numerous honors, including a doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C., and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Reynolds Price was the author of numerous books, including A Long and Happy Life (1962), volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, and memoirs. He was the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

the book that catapulted her career into the realm of critically lauded and publicly debated celebrity –Rebecca Bengal, vogue.com[Mann's photographs] suggest that the camera is adept at depicting the desires of the subconscious as it is in rendering the shapes of everyday life. –Andy Grundberg, The New York TimesProbably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world. –The New York Times, 1992The fears and sheltering tenderness that any parent has felt for his or her child were realized with an eidetic clarity –The New York Times, 1992Photographs seem to represent, for Mann, a counter-reality, an opposition to what is and what was. –The AtlanticThey were simply among the most beautiful photographs I had ever seen. –Sebastian Smee, The Boston GlobeSally Mann continues to probe the intimate life of her family and come up with startling, disquieting revelations. Mann's extraordinary picture of her nude daughter suspended like a shimmering white fish on a porch with unconcerned adults resonates in your mind like a dream. –Vince Aletti, Village Voice