Sally Mann Biography

Sally Turner Munger, born to Robert and Betty Munger on May 1, 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, United States, grew up to be a very well-known photographer. Sally’s father, Robert, introduced her to photography by shooting her as a nude girl. When she was eighteen, she started studying photography at the Putney School in Vermont. Then Sally spent two years studying at Bennington College and met her husband of forty-six years, Larry Mann. She graduated from Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia and a got her master’s degree in writing a year later. She had three children. In 1979, Sally had her first child, Emmett Mann, who took his life in 2016 at the age of thirty-six. Emmett had struggled with schizophrenia as an adult. She had her middle child, Jessie Mann, when she was thirty years old in 1981. Sally had her last child, Virginia Mann, at the age of thirty-four in 1935. Mann is known for her black-and-white photos of childhood, death, and sexuality. She started photographing …show more content…
Time magazine named “America’s Best Photographer” in 2001. A lot of Mann’s works are in a few different museums, such as Whitney Museum of American Art or the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She received a honorary Doctor of the Fine Arts degree in 2006 from the Corcoran Gallery. Mann received an award at VCCA’s 40th anniversary event at the Virginia Museum that was presented by board member Alex Nyerges. Her famous book, Hold Still, was nominated for the National Book Award (NBA) for nonfiction. Her work has been displayed in quite a few places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Sally has also written a few books. She published her first book, At Twelve, in 1988 that included images of twelve year old girls. Her next book, Immediate Family, was published in 1992. After these books she published a lot more and most of the became famous and succeeded in photography and the works of