Sally Mann

Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World College, and earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and an M.A. in writing. After graduation Mann became a staff photographer for Washington and Lee University in her hometown. Her mother ran the university's book store. Her father was the leading physician in town. In the mid-1970s her boss, Frank Parsons, encouraged her to photograph the construction of Washington and Lee's new law school, Lewis Hall. She first achieved prominence with one-woman exhibition in late 1977 at the Corcoran Galley of Art in Washington, D.C., showing mystical and surrealistic images she took of the construction of a new law building at Washington and Lee. Mann's work has stimulated controversy beginning with her second published collection, At...