Virginia, Untitled (Blue Hills)
This work belongs to a series that Mann titled Motherland, which has a double meaning: First, these pictures were made on or around the Virginia farmlands where she grew up. Second, it obliquely refers to the series she had just completed: intimate, provocative images of her children’s coming-of-age, which gained her praise and notoriety. Mann toned this print in tea, giving it a vaguely nineteenth-century feel that evokes the past and present simultaneously.
Artwork Details
- Title: Virginia, Untitled (Blue Hills)
- Artist: Sally Mann (American, born 1951)
- Date: 1993, printed 1997
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Visible: 30 × 38 in. (76.2 × 96.5 cm)
Frame: 32 1/2 × 40 1/2 in. (82.6 × 102.9 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998
- Object Number: 1998.49
- Rights and Reproduction: © Sally Mann
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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