Emmett #15
- Emmett #15
- from the series Faces
Sheet: 48 9/16 × 39 1/8 in. (123.3 × 99.3 cm)
Mount: 48 9/16 × 39 1/8 in. (123.3 × 99.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 50 3/16 × 40 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (127.4 × 103.2 × 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[Edwynn Houk 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 101. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, lower left corner: 1119208
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