ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

From the NGA Schedule:

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 4–May 28, 2018
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, June 30–September 23, 2018
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018–February 10, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–May 27, 2019
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17 –September 22, 2019
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019 –January 12, 2020

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work including portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. Some 125 photographs, many of which have not been exhibited or published previously, offer both a sweeping overview of Mann's artistic achievement and a focused exploration on the continuing influence of the South on her work. Mann's powerful and provocative work is organized into five sections: family, landscape, battlefields, legacy, and mortality. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with essays that explore the development of Mann's art; her family photographs; contemporary representations of the black body; the landscape as repository of cultural and personal memory; and Mann's debt to 19th-century photographers and techniques.

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Thanks. Her work is a favorite of mine for including randomness and specific creation.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

I had never heard of Sally Mann, Thank you for the link.
Her work is quite beautiful and sadly out of my price range.

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

I believe she filed a copyright infringement suit against James Cameron, director of Titanic, for the resemblance of a sketch used in the movie to that of her photograph Rodney Plogger at 6:01

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/188727

Rodney is my 2nd cousin. I don't recall the outcome of the suit.

More about this very talented photographer:
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=405937803

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

Thanks - I'm not familiar with her, either, so it's good to read about another masterful photographer. Alas, her exhibition schedule doesn't fit my plans for this year, but I'll look her up. I'm just beginning to explore b&w landscape photography for my own work.

shelty Loc: Medford, OR

There was a fan and feather dancer, that my father took me to around 1941 or 2, named Sally Rand. Yeah, she was completely nude as she waved her feathers around.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

That is not even remotely germane to Sally Mann.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I saw her images on google. Her pictures of kids and teens are like something out of a horror movie. Bizarre and unsettling. I wouldn't claim to be a fan.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/de/af/25deaf89bb6176e5f6d1150c2462dff4--sally-mann-immediate-family-sally-mann-photography.jpg

https://beautifulbizarre-net.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/sally_mann_beautifulbizarre_012.jpg?strip=all&fit=600%2C385&ssl=1

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

Bob, her photography is not for everyone, as is the case with many famed photographers. I have seen her exhibits a couple of times in Lexington, Virginia (where she lives). I found her images quite mind provoking and interesting. I grew up 7 miles from Lexington and know a lot of people in and around Rockbridge County. She is well respected.

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

Her body of work in quite large. You can not offer an intelligent critique based on two pictures.

Pixie Jackie Loc: New Hampshire seacoast

Hi -- I'm glad that Bobspez spoke up. I'm definitely NOT a fan of Sally Mann's either. I know. I know. Her work is in museums, etc. and her work is very creative. And weird. She has been accused of exploiting her children and I tend to agree. Take a good look at her work--there's not a smile anywhere. I don't mind nudes, but hers are ghoulish, as is her image of a skull. I wouldn't want one of her works hanging on my walls even if I could afford it. But then there are people who buy her work because of her fame and reputation. But when I pick up my camera, I think of Renoir who said: "There's enough ugliness in this world. I don't have to add to it." --- Jackie

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Your misreading of my post is a long way from intelligent. If you re-read my post you will see I say I looked at her images (I looked at many of them) on Google. I naturally didn't post every pic I looked at. However I saw enough to form an opinion.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Well said. I agree completely.

Indiana Loc: Huntington, Indiana

Love the quote!

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

She is one of my favorite contemporary photographers. There is a great documentary about her from about a decade ago on Amazon.