Lowe Art Museum presents an Artist Talk Featuring Sally Mann

Thursday, February 16, 2012. 7:30 p.m.
Generously sponsored by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation
Storer Auditorium, UM School of Business

$10 Admission: Free for Lowe members and UM students
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Sally Mann (pictured above right) was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a B.A. from Hollins College in 1974, and an M.A. in writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called Immediate Family. In her recent series of landscapes of Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and Georgia, Mann has stated that she “wanted to go right into the heart of the deep dark South.” Using damaged lenses and a camera that requires the artist to use her hand as a shutter, these photographs are marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century.

Mann has won numerous awards, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her books of photographs include Immediate Family, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, and Mother Land: Recent Landscapes of Georgia and Virginia. Ms. Mann’s photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Currently on view at Girls’ Club, as part of the exhibition Re-Framing the Feminine, Sally Mann’s Virgnia at 3, 1998, gelatin silver print.

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