- Jessie #25
- from the series Faces
Sheet: 48 1/8 × 38 5/16 in. (122.2 × 97.3 cm)
Mount: 48 1/8 × 38 5/16 in. (122.2 × 97.3 cm)
Frame: 49 3/4 × 40 1/16 × 2 1/2 in. (126.4 × 101.8 × 6.3 cm)
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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[Gagosian Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in blue and black on applied label, frame verso, upper left: GAGOSIAN GALLERY // 555 WEST 24TH STREET NEW YORK NY 10011 // // SALLY MANN // Jessie #25, 2004 // Ed # 2/5 // Gelatin Silver Print with Varnish // 50 x 40 inches // 127 x 101.6cm // (MANN 2004.0038)
Printed in green on applied label, frame verso, upper right corner: GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE PARIS // 5. RUE DEBELLEYME 75003 PARIS TELEPHONE 1/42771937
Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, upper right corner on top of green printed label: Sally Mann // Jessie #25, 2004 // Tirage Argentique // Edition 2/5 // Gelatin Silver Print // 50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101,6 cm
Printed on applied label, frame verso, upper right: BARK FRAMEWORKS LLC // [address] // [hanging instructions]
Printed on applied label, frame verso, lower left corner: BARK FRAMEWORKS LLC // [address]
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