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Sally Mann is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards including Guggenheim Foundation grants, as well as the NEA and NEH awards. She is represented by New York's Gagosian Gallery and her work is held by institutions worldwide. She has also published several books, including:
- Second Sight (1983)
- Immediate Family (1992)
- Still Time (1994)
- What Remains (2003)
- Deep South (2005)
- Proud Flesh (2009)
- The Flesh and the Spirit (2010)

A feature film has also been made about her work. 'What Remains' has been debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNEd93H4pPY

'Immediate Family' was a series of 8 by 10 elaborate portraits of her three children, taken in rural Virginia where Sally Mann spent most of her childhood and where she now resides. It was a travelling exhibition, which opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 1992. The images were taken in the time between 1984 and 1991 and included images which highlighted the complex childhoods of her variety of the sensual, the fantastic and the reality, all through a maternal eye. These were intended as tender, maternal images of her own children, but it sparked much controversy from the media. They were described as 'child pornography, and the work of an irresponsible mother'. The reaction to this series is a direct reflection of the times in which it was produced, and says more about the adult viewer than the child subject.  


Mann stated that the images were 'of my children living their lives here too. Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictitions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things that every mother has seen'.

Website: http://sallymann.com/

Immediate Family: http://www.aperture.org/immediate-family.html