Sally Mann

Sally Mann (b. 1951) is an American photographer.

She was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended the Putney School,Bennington College and Friends World College, and received a BA, Summa Cum Laude from Hollins College in 1974. She still lives in Lexington with her husband and three children, Jessie, Emmet and Virginia. Although most of Sally Mann's work has been controversial, she earned notoriety with her second published collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988).

According to critics, those portraits "captured the confusing emotions and developing sexual identities of girls at that transitional age, one foot in childhood and one foot in the adult world.

Her next collection published in 1992, Immediate Family, was of extreme contiversy, it gained notoriety for it's nude photographs of her own children. Some groups called her work child pornography. These condemnations have not hurt her career however. Her photographs appear in most major American art museums. Mann's most recent work have been of rural and unpopulated areas of Virginia. Most of her recent work is untitled, and in a collection labeled "Deep South".

Sally Mann's large black and white prints are all shot with an 8x10 camera.