The Turn (detail), 2005, Sally Mann, gelatin silver print. Private collection. © Sally Mann The Turn (detail), 2005, Sally Mann, gelatin silver print. Private collection. © Sally Mann

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

Gagosian

SELECTED WORKS

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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.

Pick up a multimedia player free of charge in the Museum Entrance Hall or use your own smartphone on our free GettyLink Wi-Fi.


Take the mobile audio tour: getty.edu/mann

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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.

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