Sally Mann
dal 11/6/2004 al 6/9/2004
Segnalato da
11/6/2004
Sally Mann
Corcoran Gallery Art, Washington
What Remains. Known for her strikingly candid portrayal of family life (Immediate Family), a revealing study of girlhood (At Twelve) and two series of exquisite landscapes (Mother Land, Deep South), internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a new series: a five-part meditation on mortality.
What Remains
Known for her strikingly candid portrayal of family life (Immediate Family), a revealing study of girlhood (At Twelve) and two series of exquisite landscapes (Mother Land, Deep South), internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a new series: a five-part meditation on mortality.
This powerful group of images takes events from Mann’s personal experience as a point of departure and quickly travels to the realms of the metaphysical. From a police showdown with an armed fugitive on Mann’s bucolic property to a series of brooding, otherworldly images made at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam to a group of close-up portraits of her own children to a series documenting, with great care, the decomposition of the family’s beloved pet greyhound to a forensics study site, Mann invites viewers to contemplate the ineffable division between body and soul, life and death. Shocking, absurd, even sublime, Sally Mann’s postmortem imagery is haunting, meditative and revelatory.
Sally Mann: What Remains is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and made possible with the generous support of Deane and Paul Shatz, Carolyn Alper, CHROME INC., and the Sondra and Charles Gilman Foundation.
Curator: Philip Brookman, Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Image:
Sally Mann
Untitled #2
2000
from the series What Remains, ambrotype lent by the artist, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Copyright © 2003 by Sally Mann
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