Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

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.