Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

About this book

Short-listed for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 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 natures magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of workportraits still lifes landscapes and other studiesis 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 questionsabout history identity race and religionthat reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sectionsFamily The Land Last Measure Abide with Me and What Remainsand including many works not previously exhibited or published Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a sweeping overview of Manns artistic achievements.