Sally Mann
Virginia #6

Virginia #6

© 2004 Sally Mann

Virginia #6
Virginia #6
ArtistAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Virginia #6
  • from the series Faces
Date2004
MediumGelatin silver print with applied varnish
DimensionsImage: 48 9/16 × 38 1/4 in. (123.4 × 97.2 cm)
Sheet: 48 9/16 × 38 1/4 in. (123.4 × 97.2 cm)
Mount: 48 9/16 × 38 1/4 in. (123.4 × 97.2 cm)
Frame (outer): 50 3/16 × 39 13/16 × 2 1/2 in. (127.5 × 101.2 × 6.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.687
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental and haunting photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s indifference to human endeavor. In 2004, she completed a series of enigmatic portraits of her children, who were by then young adults. Titled Faces and made at close range with exposure times of up to three minutes, these large-scale, softly focused pictures unnervingly recall 19th-century postmortem photographs. Ethereal and indistinct, receding and dissolving, these larger-than-life faces express Mann’s long-standing fascination with the fragility of physical being.



Provenance[Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, center left: B // BARK // NOTE // [hanging instructions] // 0002

Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, lower left corner: B // BARK // FRAMEWORKS

Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, lower left corner: 119976
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