Sally Mann

Known for: large-format photography of the Southern landscape and family

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.