About the Author

Sally Mann is a Guggenheim Fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time in 2001, and in 2021, she received the Prix Pictet and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994), which was nominated for an Academy Award, and What Remains (2006), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary.

Mann’s Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs(2015) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Mann lives in Lexington, Virginia.