ricardo7
Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile
From the NGA Schedule:
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 4âMay 28, 2018
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, June 30âSeptember 23, 2018
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018âFebruary 10, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3âMay 27, 2019
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17 âSeptember 22, 2019
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019 âJanuary 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.
Thanks. Her work is a favorite of mine for including randomness and specific creation.
artBob wrote:
Thanks. Her work is a favorite of mine for including randomness and specific creation.
I had never heard of Sally Mann, Thank you for the link.
Her work is quite beautiful and sadly out of my price range.
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.
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
shelty wrote:
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.
That is not even remotely germane to Sally Mann.
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.
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
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.
ricardo7 wrote:
Her body of work in quite large. You can not offer an intelligent critique based on two pictures.
Well said. I agree completely.
Pixie Jackie wrote:
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
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She is one of my favorite contemporary photographers. There is a great documentary about her from about a decade ago on Amazon.
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