Sally Mann

Mann unsettles me in the best way. Rather than roam the world for exotic subjects, she stayed in Virginia and turned her lens inward, on her own children, husband, and the rural land that raised her, in luminous large-format black and white. Mining what is closest to you takes more nerve than chasing distance, and her work carries an unmistakable charge of love braided with mortality. The Guggenheim, the Prix Pictet, the academy fellowship all confirm what the prints already prove. For me her greatest achievement is the courage to look so hard at home and never flinch.

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Name (English)

Sally Mann

Name (Japanese)

サリー・マン

Reading

さりー・まん

Born

May 1, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Lexington, Virginia, United States

Occupation

photographer / publisher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

University

Bennington College

Awards & achievements

• 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2021 Prix Pictet
• 2022 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2020 Royal Photographic Society Award

• Official sitehttps://sallymann.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Mann
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256434

Tags

• Virginia
• photographer
• publisher

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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