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Sally Mann Photographer May 13, 2006–
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Jeanne Ruesch and the President of the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Paul Greenhalgh, are proud to announce that they will honor Sally Mann, world renowned photographer, with an honorary degree doctor of fine arts, honoris causa at this year’s 2006 college graduation. “It is an honor to have Sally Mann added to our list of distinguished honorary degree recipients,” said Christina De Paul, Dean of the College. “Her work is seminal and extraordinary. Her oeuvre is world class and has greatly contributed to our understanding of the centrality of her photography in the arts dialogue.” Sally Mann’s photographs grant us entry into the marvelous and sometimes shocking mysteries of childhood, history, mortality, and the imagination. Using tools and techniques borrowed and resuscitated from photography’s pre-digital past, she depicts the physical world as a luminous, liminal theater through which we see beyond conventional appearances and experience new forms of visual pleasure. Her photographs have been recognized for excellence by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and the Friends of Photography. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1951. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974 and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. Mann has won numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Mann’s photographs have been featured in several Corcoran exhibitions: In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (2001), Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry (1996) and Sally Mann: The Lewis Law Portfolio (1977), and Mann’s first one-person exhibition "Sally Mann: What Remains" (2004). Her past publications include Second Sight, At Twelve, Immediate Family and Still Time. A documentary film about Mann’s family pictures was nominated for an Academy Award in 1993. Time magazine named Mann as America’s best photographer in 2001. A documentary about Mann’s creative process and life, What Remains, directed by Steven Cantor was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in November 2005 and will show at the Silverdocs American Film Institute Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in June. ABOUT THE CORCORAN COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN :: View images and further details from this exhibition
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