Artist Talk with Sally Mann @ City Arts & Lectures
Sally Mann is one of the most significant American photographers of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Mann has explored childhood, family, memory, mortality, and the passage of time, often through experimental and historic photographic processes. From At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988), a nuanced study of girls on the cusp of adolescence, to her landmark series, Immediate Family (1985–1994), occasionally staged photographs of her three children, taken with an 8×10 view camera. In more recent years, Mann turned her lens toward the land itself, using the American South as a site of both personal and collective memory. Mann is the subject of the documentary films Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (1994). Her memoirs include Hold Still, and now Art Work: On the Creative Life.
Ted Orland began his professional career as a young graphic artist and in the 1970’s became Assistant to photographer Ansel Adams. He later taught photography at University of Oregon, Stanford University and several California community colleges, and continues to lead field workshops and master classes on topics of artistic development. Ted is co-author (with David Bayles) of the classic artist’s survival guide Art & Fear.