![]() ![]() Her wondrous landscape photographs, reproduced with dazzling precision in “Hold Still,” make you think of Ansel Adams and the 19th century French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. They have three children, whom Sally photographed nude when they were young, earning scorn from critics while building an audience that took her beyond the modest public that follows and collects art photography.īefore Mann addresses the tempest around those family pictures, still bitter after all these years, she takes us to the breathtaking place where she lives and works. In 1970, after attending the Putney School and Bennington College in Vermont, Sally married Larry Mann, then a student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Mann was born Sally Munger in 1951 in Lexington, Va., the daughter of a Dallas-born atheist doctor and a mother from Boston who would have been a doctor if she’d had the money for medical school. ![]() With that in mind, the photographer has become a family archaeologist. Photography, she warns, is the “malignant twin to imperfect memory,” which tends to substitute pictures for memories. ![]()
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