Jessie #25
- 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.
Published References Greenough, Sarah, Sarah Kennel, Hilton Als, Malcolm R Daniel, Drew Gilpin Faust, Sally Mann, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Peabody Essex Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musée Du Jeu De Paume (France), High Museum of Art, and Abrams (Publishing Company). Sally Mann : A Thousand Crossings. Washington, District of Columbia: National Gallery of Art, 2018: Plate 100. 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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