born Sally Turner Munger American, 20th – 21st century, female. Born 1 May 1951, in Lexington (Virginia), United States. Photographer. Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, where she has continued to live most of her life. After receiving an MA in creative writing from Hollins College in 1975, she worked as a professional photographer. Mann was moderately successful in her early years, but she became almost instantly famous with the 1992 publication of her book, Immediate Family, which featured images of her three young children playing, sleeping, and posturing. Their frequent nudity, and the suggestion that childhood is not thoroughly a time of innocence, caused intense controversy. Mann has continued to photograph her family, including her husband Larry, who suffers from muscular dystrophy. Additionally, she is known for her haunting, skillfully printed images of the southern landscape, including the sites of Civil War battles. Influenced by 19th-century American photographers such as Alexander Gardner and Michael Miley, Mann has worked almost exclusively in black and white with a large-format camera. Since the mid-1990s she has experimented with historical processes such as collodion wet-plate photography, ambrotype, and platinum printing, embracing and sometimes encouraging the aesthetic effects of drips and scratches. Such experimentation has contributed to a widespread, renewed interest in alternative photographic processes in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She is the winner of many prestigious awards and in ...