Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings - Hardcover

Greenough, Sarah; Kennel, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419729039 ISBN 13: 9781419729034

Publisher: Abrams, 2018

Synopsis

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies is that it is all bred of a place, the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, uses her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage to ask powerful, provocative questions about history, identity, race, and religion that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sections Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains and including many works not previously exhibited or published, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a sweeping overview of Mann s artistic achievements.

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Review

"all her [Sally Mann's] strengths are on view in a deftly chosen and admirably displayed exhibition in Washington covering most of her 40-plus-year career: Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, at the National Gallery of Art. There, 108 images 47 of them never before exhibited and an excellent catalog provide a provocative tour through the photographer's accomplishments. It is also a record of exploration into the past, into the country s history and photography's, stamped with a powerful vision." --NY Times

"Photographer Sally Mann has been taking haunting images of the American South for more than four decades. This 320-page volume collects the sweep of her work through portraits, still lifes, and landscapes." --New York Magazine online

"Virginia-born Sally Mann has not strayed from her home turf and, over a 40-plus-year professional life, her photographic signature has remained constant: a southern gothic sensibility imbued with a heavy tincture of romanticism. A Thousand Crossings showcases her achievement and includes work never seen in print before." The Irish Times

"A Thousand Crossings and its catalog represent a large portion of Mann's multifaceted oeuvre. It is by turns tender, light-hearted, sun-dappled, epic, allusive, burdened, scarred, mournful, dark, mindful, exploratory, expiatory, commemorative, introspective, conciliatory, and wise." --New York Review of Books

From the Author

Sally Mann is a celebrated contemporary American artist whose career spans more than 40 years. She lives in Lexington, Virginia. 
 
Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel are the cocurators of the Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings exhibition. Greenough is the senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Kennel is the curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1419729039
• ISBN 13: 9781419729034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320