Sally Mann-Biography

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951. Mann graduated from the Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. Moreover, she began to start her photography skills in Putney and started her photography debut due to the influence of her father. After her graduation, she started to work as a staff photographer at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Her collections of books: Second Sight, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, and Immediate Family, all portrayed controversial and miraculous photos of adolescent girls, and her three children. Her children were her models when she took photos of them, Mann's primary idea was to capture the essence of her children. The photos she took was when her children were doing something intriguing, she also took photos of her children developing into young adults. After her children grew older, she began taking photos of landscaping, producing another collection, Still Time. Her three other books consisted of her greyhound, landscaping, and her husband which suffers from a disorder. Nowadays, her photographic works are now included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of New York City, and many more. 

Furthermore, Sally Mann is a photographer that is best known for her immense black and white photographs, starting with her children, and then pictures of landscapes that consists of decay and death.