The first major travelling survey of the artist’s career, this exhibition explores how Sally Mann’s relationship with the American South has shaped her work. Experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs—many never before shown—reveal how she probes themes of family, mortality, and the landscape as a repository of personal and collective memory. Asking powerful questions about history, identity, race, and religion, the exhibition demonstrates how the legacy of the South continues to permeate American identity.
This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
Generously supported at the J. Paul Getty Museum by
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Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Edited by Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel.
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Join artist Sally Mann as she shares her process of making photographs and recalls memories of the people and places she’s pictured.
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Collodion and the Angel of Uncertainty
Explore Sally Mann’s use of collodion wet plate negatives, a process used by many Civil War photographers. Made possible by the HRH Foundation.