Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit

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“Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit” is the first in-depth exploration of this world-renowned artist’s approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling often difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Mann’s…

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"Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit" is the first in-depth exploration of this world-renowned artist's approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling often difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Mann's earliest platinum prints from the late 1970s, Polaroid still lifes, early color work of her children, haunting landscape images, recent self-portraits and nude studies of her husband. These series document Mann's interest in the body as principal subject, with the associated issues of vulnerability and mortality lending an elegiac note to her images. In bringing them together, author and curator John Ravenal examines the varied ways in which Mann's experimental approach, including ambrotypes and gelatin-silver prints made from collodian wet-plate negatives, moves her subjects from the corporeal to the ethereal. Ravenal also supplies a comprehensive introduction as well as individual entries on each series, and essays by David Levi Strauss ("Eros, Psyche, and the Mendacity of Photography") and Anne Wilkes Tucker ("Living Memory") add different, but equally illuminating perspectives to this work. "Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit "is a must for any serious library of photographic literature, students, scholars, collectors and others interested in her work.
Sally Mann (born 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Mann's many books include "What Remains" (2003), "Deep South "(2005), and the Aperture titles "At Twelve "(1988), "Immediate Family "(1992), "Still Time "(1994) and "Proud Flesh" (2009). She lives in Lexington, Virginia.
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Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 203
Publication date: 2010-11-30
Measurements: 9.42 x 11.79 x 0.99 inches
ISBN: 9781597111621

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John B. Ravenal is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. His recent exhibitions include Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit (2010), Xu Bing: Tobacco Project (2011), and Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit (2014). He is currently working on an exhibition about Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch. He served as the fourth president of the Association of Art Museum Curators and was a 2012 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Sally Mann, born in Lexington, Virginia, is one of America s most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Her many books include “What Remains”, “Deep South”, and the Aperture titles “At Twelve”, “Immediate Family”, “Still Time”, “Proud Flesh”, and “The Flesh and the Spirit”. A feature film about What Remains debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. She lives in Virginia.
“David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic in New York. His previous publications include Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics and The Legacy of Landmines, a collaboration with photographer Bobby Neel Adams.”
Ralph Gibson is an award-winning photographer whose works are in the collections of major museums worldwide. His previous books include “Light Strings: Impressions of the Guitar “(2004). He divides his time between New York City and Paris, France. Anne Wilkes Tucker is Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Les Paul is a revered guitarist.