Sally Mann’s ‘Jessie in the Wind’ is a classic

This image is from photographer Sally Mann’s Immediate Family, an acclaimed black-and-white series published as a book in 1992 featuring Mann’s three children (Emmett, Jessie and Virginia) when all were under 10 years old.

Mann is well known for her documentation of the American South. She began using a 100-year-old 8 x 10 Bellows camera in 1983. This camera became her primary tool, allowing her to achieve the antique effect that lends her images a dreamy gravity.

The images in Immediate Family were taken between 1984 and 1991 in the rural parts of Virginia, where Mann and the children spent their childhoods. Her photographs are in many significant permanent collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; among others.

Sally Mann’s website, here.

This image is up for auction at Artnet:
Image: 18.7 x 23 in. (47.5 x 58.42 cm.)
Sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm.)
Frame: 29 x 33 x 1 in. (73.66 x 83.82 x 2.54 cm.)
Edition 18/25