Untitled (#49 Woven Branches 2, Deep South Frontispiece), 1998īorn in 1951 in Virginia, Sally Mann was the only daughter but the third child for Robert and Elizabeth Munger. Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs was a National Book Award finalist and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and others. ArtReview News 16 December 2021 artreview.In her memoir, released in May, 2015, Sally Mann reveals an intimate, visceral, and beautiful family history, steeped in the gritty landscape of the American South.Ĭombining startling photographs with narrative prose, the author captivates readers by piecing together artifacts from her ancestors and their surroundings. Works by all nominees are on view at the V&A, London, through 9 January 2022. Mann was selected among a shortlist of 12, including Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rinko Kawauchi, Christian Marclay, Fabrice Monteiro, Lisa Oppenheim, Mak Remissa, Carla Rippey, Mark Ruwedel, Brent Stirton, David Uzochukwu and Daisuke Yokota. It debuted at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 2018 before touring across the US and to Paris’s Jeu de Paume. A Guggenheim fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was recently the subject of an extensive survey show, A Thousand Crossings, which explored the identity of the American South.
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From the 1990s, she turned her lens to the American South, taking photographs in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana for her series Deep South (2005), as well as Civil War battlefields for Last Measure (2000). Mann’s disquieting, often black-and-white images manifest her interest in photography’s past, using nineteenth-century technologies such as a 8×10 bellows camera or platinum and wet-plate collodion processes for making prints, to explore their visual and metaphorical potential. ‘Something about the deeply flawed American character seems to embrace the apocalyptic as solution.’īorn in Lexington, Virginia, Mann studied photography in the late 1960s, receiving her first solo museum exhibition in 1977 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. ‘The fires in the Great Dismal Swamp seemed to epitomize the great fire of racial strife in America – the Civil War, emancipation, the Civil Rights Movement, in which my family was involved, the racial unrest of the late 1960s and most recently the summer of 2020,’ Mann explained in a statement. The then densely-forested swamp became, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a refuge for runaway slaves, who lived in hiding on this inhospitable and hostile land to escape living under bondage.
Mann’s winning series, Blackwater (2008–12), is a layered exploration of the destruction caused by the wildfires that engulfed the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, drawing a parallel with the site’s history as the land where the first slave ship docked in America. The ‘global award in photography and sustainability’ comes with a cash prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs (£82,000). Courtesy the artist and GagosianĪmerican artist Sally Mann has been announced as the winner of the 9th Prix Pictet at a ceremony at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Sally Mann, from the series ‘Blackwater’, 2008–12.
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