Sally Mann : a thousand crossings
(Book - Regular Print)

Catalog of an exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 4-May 28, 2018, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 30-September, 23, 2018, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018-February 10, 2019, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3-May 27, 2019, Jeu de paume, Paris, June 17-September 22, 2019 and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19, 2019-January 12, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index.

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work-portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies-is that it is all "bred of a place," the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, has long written about what it means to live in the South and to be identified as a Southerner. Using her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage, she asks powerful, provocative questions-about history, identity, race, and religion-that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sections-family, landscape, battlefields, legacy, and mortality-and including many works not previously exhibited or published, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a sweeping overview of Mann's artistic achievement of the past four decades. It is also a focused exploration of how the legacy of the South-as both homeland and graveyard, refuge and battleground-emerges within her work as a powerful and provocative force that continues to shape American identity and experience. Exhibition:National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (04.03.-28.05.2018) / Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA (30.06.-23.09.2018) / The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (20.11.2018-10.02.2019) / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (03.03.-27.05.2019) / Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (16.06.-15.09.2019) / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (13.10.2019-05.01.2020).