Sally Mann
Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)

Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)

© Sally Mann

Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)
Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)
ArtistAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)
Date1998
MediumGelatin silver print with tea toning
DimensionsImage (at open): 36 5/8 × 46 9/16 in. (93 × 118.3 cm)
Sheet: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.682
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 309
Exposé

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


In 1955 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped and brutally murdered after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. The perpetrators were acquitted. Haunted by the accounts of Till’s death since her own childhood, Sally Mann retraced his presumed route on the evening of his death, seeking to get the earth “to give up its ghosts.” Bridge on Tallahatchie depicts the Black Bayou Bridge in Glendora, Mississippi, where some believe Till’s naked, mutilated body was thrown into the river with a heavy fan from a cotton gin lashed around his waist.



Provenance[Gagosian Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Deep South, Untitled (Scarred Tree)
Sally Mann
1998, printed 1999
Gelatin silver print with toning
2019.285
Untitled (Leaf)
Sally Mann
2001
Gelatin silver print
2019.684
Battlefields, Untitled, Fredericksburg (Cedar Trees)
Sally Mann
2000
Gelatin silver print with applied varnish
2019.685
At Twelve (Leah and Her Father)
Sally Mann
1983–1985
Gelatin silver print
2021.296
Equivalent #1—Moonshine
Sally Mann
1985
Gelatin silver print
2002.1587
Equivalent #2—Possum Tail
Sally Mann
1987
Gelatin silver print
2002.1588
The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude
Sally Mann
1987
Gelatin silver print
2002.1582
The Bent Ear
Sally Mann
1989
Gelatin silver print
2002.1586
Virginia at 4
Sally Mann
1989
Gelatin silver print
2002.1583
Emmett, Jessie and Virginia
Sally Mann
1989
Gelatin silver print
2002.1584
Was Ever Love
Sally Mann
2009
Gelatin silver print
2010.163
Semaphore
Sally Mann
2003
Gelatin silver print
2010.164