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  • About the Artist
  • Sally Mann (bio)

Sally mann is known and regarded for her images of intimate and familiar subjects rendered sublime and disquieting: children, landscape, family, and the nature of mortality. In previous projects, she explored relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, nature and history. This group of photographs, spanning more than a decade, records in fleeting impressions the working habitat of the late Cy Twombly, her close friend and mentor.

Twombly and Mann are both natives of Virginia. The landscape to which Twombly returned each year is also the memoryscape of Mann’s connection to him. This was documented in her recent memoir, Hold Still, in which she recalls his elemental nature, his Southern courtesy, his wry and gentle humor. Recalling her time with Twombly, Mann writes, “Our part of the South, remote, beautiful, and patinaed with the past, allows us such a remove, the distance of another time.”

Under Mann’s gaze, and the warm light of Virginia, the accumulations and ordinary objects in Twombly’s studio reveal themselves not only as evidence of a richly imaginative and cultivated life lived and marked by tactility, but also as the overflow of his general modus operandi. Even without the artist’s actual presence, Mann is able to vividly evoke the human traces evident in daily life and work. Mann’s poetic images of time recorded testify to the fragments and deposits of Twombly’s artistic life. As well, they speak to her deft, sharp ability to record interiority and her singular eye for the immediate, the intimate, and the present becoming memory.

— from Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington, which was on view at Gagosian Gallery, New York, September 22 to October 29, 2016 [End Page 78]


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Remembered Light, Untitled (Slippers), 2005

gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Painting Draped), 2006

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© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Painting and Sculptures), 2006

gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Slippers), 2012

gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Three Sculptures on Table), 2005

gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Overview), 2011–2012

platinum print, 9 x 14 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Letters and Striped Cane), 2011

gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Remembered Light, Untitled (Slippers and Flare), 2012

gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in.

© Sally Mann, courtesy Gagosian

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Sally Mann

Photographer sally mann has received numerous awards, including National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim Foundation grants. Her work has been exhibited by major institutions and is held in institutional collections worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Her books include At Twelve, Immediate Family, Still Time, What Remains, Deep South, Proud Flesh, and The Flesh and The Spirit. In 2001, she was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine. Her best-selling memoir, Hold Still, received universal critical acclaim and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2016, Hold Still won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York, and she lives and works in Virginia.

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