Biographie de Sally Mann
Sally Mann lives and works in Lexington, Virginia, where she was born in 1951. One of America's most renowned photographers, she has exhibited work around the world and is represented in such major institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York ; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; San Francisco Museum of Modem Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
She has received numerous grants and honors, including a doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC ; the designation "America's Best Photographer," in 2001, by Time magazine ; and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. In 2002 two documentaries about her work aired on PRS. In 2006 a feature-length film, What Remains, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and aired on HBO in 2007.
Reynolds Price (afterword) was born in Macon, North Carolina, in 1933, and died in 2011. His 1962 novel A Long and Happy Life received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel, and bas never been out of print. He puhlished numerous other books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Books Critics Circle Award. He also published volumes of short staries, poems, plays, essays, a memoir, and wrote for the screen and for television.
He was a member of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was the James B Duke Professer of English at Duke University.