Sally Mann’s Immediate Family
After more than 15 years since the original exhibition, Season 1 artist Sally Mann’s Immediate Family is again on display at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.
Immediate Family was simultaneously criticized and acclaimed by the art world in 1992 when her family pictures were first shown. The series depicts Mann’s three children at play in an idyllic Southern romp under the Virginia sun. Set within the confines of a jaded garden‚ “a haunted landscape that reveals both past and present, corruption and innocence, life and death‚” the Mann family story is set aflame at the crossroads of fiction and fantasy.
Responsible for a renewed interest in the 8×10 large format camera, antique processes, and staged photographs yielding an unbridled sense of intimacy, Sally Mann’s artistic shadow looms large in the imaginations of a younger generation of artists. This new exhibition stands as an opportunity to reevaluate Immediate Family, and the artist’s accomplishment.
Immediate Family is on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery through January 12. View more images from the exhibition here.
2 Responses to “Sally Mann’s Immediate Family”
[…] of censorship and art, is Season 1 artist Sally Mann. In the 1990’s, Mann’s collection Immediate Family gained notoriety for including nude photographs of her own children. Blending fiction with public […]
Call me old fashioned but I strongly believe in protecting young children and I find naked/semi naked photographs of minors (not old enough to make responsible decisions for themselves),circulated on the internet in the name of art an absolute abuse of their future rights and wellbeing,and an open invitation to perverts and voyeurs.
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