The Family and the Land: Sally Mann at the Photographer’s Gallery

LONDON.- This exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery is the American photographer Sally Mann’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Combining several series from her long photographic career, The Family and the Land: Sally Mann reflects Mann’s artistic impulse to draw on the world around her as subject matter. The ‘family’ element of the title comprises Mann’s early series Immediate Family and the newer series Faces, both of which depict her children at various ages. The series Deep South represents the [...]

Recent Work by Photographer Alex Prager at Michael Hoppen Contemporary

LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Contemporary presents the most recent work by rising American photographer Alex Prager. Following the success of her 2008 critically acclaimed exhibit, The Big Valley, the exhibition will stage the continuation of Prager’s Los Angeles narrative, as she contrives the next generation of retro-modern damsels. Women adorned with wigs and staged in neon Californian landscapes result in timeless, eerie and compelling images. Her large-format Technicolor photographs draw from the cinematic conventions of the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and [...]

Sally Mann Exhibits in a Swiss Museum for the First Time

LAUSANNE.- For the first time in Switzerland, a museum exhibition is devoted to the exceptional oeuvre of Sally Mann. Over the past fifteen years this body of work has earned Mann a deservedly international reputation. Since the 1970’s this American photographer (b. Lexington, Virginia in 1951) has been dealing with the troubling themes of intimacy and the inexorable passage of time. Sally Mann’s work is centered on portraits of her children, as she observed them closely and with great honesty [...]