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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2018>Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

# Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

March 4 – May 28, 2018West Building, Ground Floor, Outer Tier Galleries

Sally Mann, *Deep South, Untitled (Scarred Tree)*, 1998, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund.

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

 For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work is that it is all bred of a place, the American South. A native of Lexington, Virginia, Mann has long written about what it means to live in the South and be identified as a southerner. Using her deep love of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions—about history, identity, race, and religion—that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. *Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings* considers how Mann’s relationship with this land has shaped her work and how the legacy of the South—as both homeland and graveyard, refuge and battleground—continues to permeate American identity.

Organized into five sections—Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains—and including many works not previously published or publicly shown, the exhibition is the first major survey of the artist’s work to travel internationally. Featuring some 110 photographs, the exhibition is curated by Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, and Sarah Kennel, the Byrne Family Curator of Photography, Peabody Essex Museum.

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *On the Maury*, 1992, gelatin silver print, Private collection. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Easter Dress,*1986, gelatin silver print, Patricia and David Schulte. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *The Ditch*, 1987, gelatin silver print, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Sally Mann and Edwynn Houk Gallery. The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY, Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Bloody Nose,*1991, silver dye bleach print, Private collection. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Deep South, Untitled (Fontainebleau)*, 1998, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Stephen G. Stein Employee Benefit Trust. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Deep South, Untitled (Bridge on Tallahatchie)*, 1998, gelatin silver print, Markel Corporate Art Collection. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Deep South, Untitled (Scarred Tree)*, 1998, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Battlefields, Fredericksburg (Cedar Trees)*, 2001, gelatin silver print, Waterman / Kislinger Family. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Battlefields, Antietam (Starry Night)*, 2001, gelatin silver print, Alan Kirshner and Deborah Mihaloff Art Collection. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Battlefields, Cold Harbor (Battle)*, 2003, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee and the Sarah and William L Walton Fund. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *The Two Virginias #4*, 1991, gelatin silver print, Collection of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Beulah Baptist*, 2008–2016, gelatin silver print, Collection of the artist. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Blackwater 3*, 2008–2012, tintype, Collection of the artist. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Virginia #6*, 2004, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Ponder Heart,*2009, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. Image © Sally Mann

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann, *Was Ever Love*, 2009, gelatin silver print, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment (2010.163). Image © Sally Mann

**Organization:** Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

**Sponsors:** The exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the Trellis Fund.

Additional support is provided by Sally Engelhard Pingree and The Charles Engelhard Foundation.

**Passes:** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Attendance:** 75,425

**Catalog:**Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings. By Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2018.

**Other venues:** Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, June 30–September 23, 2018The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 16, 2018–February 10, 2019The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–May 27, 2019Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 17–September 22, 2019High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 19–December 16, 2019

                    - Mann, Sally
                    - American , 1951 - 

Press

LectureIntroduction to the Exhibition—Sally Mann: A Thousand CrossingsMarch 4 at 2:00East Building Auditorium

Public SymposiaHistory, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to NowApril 14 at 10:30East Building Auditorium

LectureCrossing PathsApril 21 at noonEast Building Auditorium

LectureThe Evidence of Things Seen and UnseenMay 20 at 2:00East Building Auditorium

                  - Crossing Paths
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    July 17, 2018, (44:09 minutes)                                
                  - The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    July 10, 2018, (40:37 minutes)                                
                  - The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 19, 2018, (40:37 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 2—Photography in History’s Shadow: Sally Mann’s Landscape Photography
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (14:36 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 4—Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass on Photography
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (31:56 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 4—Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass on Photography
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (26:36 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 3—Race, Childhood, and the Southern Gothic
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (30:37 minutes)                                
                  - Crossing Paths
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (44:09 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 1—Signs of Return: Photography as History in the US South
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (53:45 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now, Part 5—King’s Vibrato: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Sound of Photography 
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (27:41 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now, Part 5—King’s Vibrato: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Sound of Photography 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (25:06 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 3—Race, Childhood, and the Southern Gothic
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (32:19 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now  Part 1—Signs of Return: Photography as History in the US South
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (61:29 minutes)                                
                  - History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now Part 2—Photography in History’s Shadow: Sally Mann’s Landscape Photography
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    June 12, 2018, (14:59 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition-Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings 
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    March 27, 2018, (63:41 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition-Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    March 6, 2018, (63:41 minutes)                                
                  - Sally Mann: Collodion and the Angel of Uncertainty
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    February 27, 2018, (9:26 minutes)                                
                  - Interview with Janssen Evelyn
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    February 27, 2018, (4:05 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    February 27, 2018, (21:23 minutes)                                
                  - Sally Mann and Bill T. Jones
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    February 27, 2018, (6:25 minutes)                                
                  - Reading from “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs” by Sally Mann
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    August 11, 2015, (55:51 minutes)                                
                  - Reading from “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs” by Sally Mann
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    June 30, 2015, (71:30 minutes)                                

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