American artist Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951, where she continues to lives and work. Mann’s photographs have been honored over the years with various grants and awards, along with being the focus of a number of solo and group exhibitions worldwide. These include “Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry,” the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1996); “Picturing the South,” The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1996); “The Whitney Biennial,” the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1991); and “Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1991). For many years it was an 8 × 10 view camera that Mann chose to capture the fine detail in the images of her children as she urged them to act outvarious social and familial roles on the lush property of their rural Virginia home. The Immediate Family series, captured Mann’s children in either posed positions or where they were simply detained in their activity, frequently appearing nude, which communicates both the primal and playful aspects of human behavior. The images from the At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988) series, encapsulate the perplexing emotions and emerging identities of young adolescent girls. A notable example is Candy Cigarette where Mann’s skillfully unique combination serendipitous moments with meticulous planning. In this captivating photograph, Mann’s daughter Jessie postpones her playful activities and is recorded gracefully poised with a candy cigarette in her hand, the young innocent miniature blonde, representing a lanky twenty-something beauty. The expressive printing style Mann is fond of further lends to the theatrical, ominous mood to all of her images.
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| Candy Cigarette 1989 |
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| One Big Snake 1991 |
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