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Sally mann memoir6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She earned a BA, summa cum laude, from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1974 and a MA in creative writing in 1975. ![]() Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. Most of her photographs and writings are tied to Lexington, Virginia. Mann began to photograph when she was sixteen. Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest in photography his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today. ![]() Mann was raised by an atheist and compassionate father who allowed Mann to be "benignly neglected". Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Sally Mann HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs-at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.īorn in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children. ![]() Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2016.Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society, 2012.Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, 2006.National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship: 1982, 1988, 1992. ![]()
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