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Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women (30th Anniversary Edition)

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This survey will doubtlessly broaden the knowledge of Mann’s career beyond her most indelible, and controversial, series. But the photographs in “Immediate Family” remain worth exploring in their own right.

First published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a contemporary classic by one of photography’s most renowned photographers. To mark the book’s thirtieth anniversary, Aperture is reoriginating it in a masterful facsimile edition that retains the purity of the original. Sally Mann has remained close to her roots, photographing in the American South since the 1970s. She is renowned for her resonant landscape work, trenchant studies of mortality, and intimate portraits of her children and husband. A Guggenheim fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named America’s Best Photographer by Time magazine in 2001. She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994) and What Remains (2007), and in 2011, she presented at Harvard the William E. Massey Sr. Lecture in American Studies, which planted the seeds for Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015). Mann’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Mann’s other Aperture books are Immediate Family (1992, reissued 2014), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (copublished with Gagosian Gallery, 2009), and The Flesh and The Spirit (copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2010). Mann observed that it is rare for female artists to focus on the nude male form: "In taking these pictures, I joined the thinly populated group of women who have looked unflinchingly at men, and who frequently have been punished for doing so [...] I can think of numberless male artists, from Bonnard to Weston to Stieglitz, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I have trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, studying his body and asking to photograph him, is a brazen venture for a woman; for a male photographer, these acts are commonplace, even expected". Sally Mann/The Lewis Law Portfolio | Corcoran Art + Design". November 26, 2015. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015.

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Among her foremost bodies of published work, the original 37 images of At Twelve tap the complex and often unseen interior complexities of 12-year-old girls just at the tipping point of their long passage to womanhood. The current exhibition features seven 8 x 10 platinum photographs from the series; an additional 17 prints are available for viewing upon request. Honorary Fellowships". Royal Photographic Society. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012 . Retrieved September 7, 2012.

Mann’s work was, in many quarters, acclaimed. “The fears and sheltering tenderness that any parent has felt for his or her child were realised with an eidetic clarity,” the New York Times wrote of the series. “The images seemed to speak of a familiar past that was now distant and irretrievable.” Appleford, Steve (December 5, 2010). "Sally Mann's examination of life, death and decay". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 7, 2023. The Genius of Photography: We Are Family". Episode 6. BBC Four Productions, Wall to Wall Media Ltd. (2008)Mann's fourth book, Still Time, published in 1994, was based on the catalogue of a traveling exhibition that included more than 20 years of her photography. The 60 images included more photographs of her children, but also earlier landscapes with color and abstract photographs.

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