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Sally Mann

Michelle Hood

Sally Mann

Photographer
American·b. 1951
Known for:
large-format photography of the Southern landscape and family
Education:
Hollins College (BA, literature, 1974; MA, creative writing, 1975)

Sally Mann has worked in Virginia for most of her career, producing large-format photographs of her children, the Southern landscape, and the human body. Her 1992 book Immediate Family - intimate photographs of her three children on their farm - was among the most discussed and contested photography books of the decade. Her later work with wet plate collodion, a nineteenth-century photographic process, produces photographs with a physical and historical density that other processes do not replicate.

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Deardorff 8×10 View Camera
Deardorff 8×10 View Camera

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Mann uses 8x10 view cameras for her landscape and portrait work, including the "Immediate Family" (1992) and "Deep South" series. Her large-format practice is discussed extensively in her memoir "Hold Still" (2015).

Product description

Manufactured by L.F. Deardorff & Sons in Chicago from the 1920s through the 1980s, the 8×10 is a wooden field camera producing negatives 8 by 10 inches. Its bellows design allows for full front and rear movements including tilt, swing, and shift.

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