Sally Mann
Triptych, 2004
Gelatin silver prints
Copyright Sally Mann
During the last two decades, Mann has made several groups of photographs that reflect on mortality, life’s fragility, and her family. Between 2002 and 2004, she created a series of...
During the last two decades, Mann has made several groups of photographs that reflect on mortality, life’s fragility, and her family. Between 2002 and 2004, she created a series of enigmatic portraits of her children, who were by then young adults. These large-scale, softly focused pictures were captured at close range with exposure times of up to three minutes. They unnervingly recall postmortem photographs of the nineteenth century, which were the final—and sometimes only—likeness of a loved one.