Sally Mann’s solo exhibition at Fotografiska covers the notorious portrayals of her own children from Immediate Family, her early landscapes from the American South, and the ongoing, painfully personal series Proud Flesh of her husband Larry’s struggle with a serious illness. The exhibition also includes Mann’s intimate documentary photos from Body Farm, a place in Tennessee where human corpses are left on the ground to decompose. The bodies were donated for the purpose of studying decomposition under various conditions. These pictures are part of the photographic series What Remains.
Sally Mann grew up in Virginia in the South of the USA, where she has continued to live and work throughout her career. Staying close to her roots, focusing on everyday life and her immediate surroundings are what inspire her.
“It has always been my philosophy to make art out of the everyday and ordinary. It never occurred to me to leave home to make art,” says Sally Mann.
Sally Mann’s work has had a seminal influence on art photography ever since her first solo show in 1977. Her major breakthrough came in the early 1990s, with the notorious and often debated portrayals of her own children. Since then, she has been constantly in the public eye, with her fascinatingly fragile and moving narrative quality in both stills and films. In 2001, Time magazine named Mann “America’s Best Photographer”. She is represented in collections all over the world, including at MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Sally Mann – A Matter of Time
June 1 – September 30, 2012
Fotografiska
Stadsgårdshamnen 22
116 45 Stockholm
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Sally Mann – At Twelve
From September 13th to November 17th, 2012
La Fábrica Gallery
C/ Verónica, 13
28014 Madrid – Spain
Sally Mann – Upon Reflection
From September 13th to November 3rd, 2012
Edwynn Houk
745 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10151 – USA
