Last Light, 1990

Price Realised USD 17,640

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Closed: 7 Apr 2022

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SALLY MANN (B. 1951)

Last Light, 1990

Price Realised USD 17,640

Closed: 7 Apr 2022

Price Realised USD 17,640

Closed: 7 Apr 2022

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SALLY MANN (B. 1951)
Last Light, 1990
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated and numbered ‘12/25’ and variously annotated in pencil (verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed label (frame backing board)
image: 18 1/2 x 22 5/8 in. (46.9 x 57.4 cm.)
sheet: 19 5/8 x 23 7/8 in. (49.8 x 60.6 cm.)
This work is number twelve from an edition of twenty-five.

Houk Friedman Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995.

Sally Mann and Reynolds Price, Sally Mann: Immediate Family, Aperture Foundation, New York, 1992, n.p.

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Lot Essay

Sally Mann’s, , are a series of photographs that were taken between the mid-1980’s to the mid-1990’s of her three children Emmet, Jessie and Virginia. The series documents their childhoods growing up in the countryside on their family farm in rural Virginia. In 1992, Mann published her seminal book, (Aperture), which brought her international acclaim and recognition for her raw, yet sublime images, encompassing a freedom and intimacy seldomly photographed within the sacred circle of the family.