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Sally Mann American photographer Sally Mann attending the 2022 Lucie Awards at Carnegie Hall, New York City.

Sally Mann

American photographer
Also known as: Sally Munger
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Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951, Lexington, Virginia, U.S.) is an American photographer whose powerful images capture the ambiguity of childhood and adolescence, the fragility of the human body, and the beauty of Southern landscapes that obscure historical violence. Some of her work, notably the photographs of her three young children, Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia, at their family farm in the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia, was deemed controversial in the 1990s, but much of...

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