![]() ![]() While the series found almost immediate commercial success, not all of the scrutiny the photographs have received has been positive even the most liberal art periodicals in the 1990s have often refused to publish unedited photographs of the nude Mann children. First exhibited collectively in the exhibition "Immediate Family" that opened at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York in 1992, these photographs chronicle the growing up of the Mann children, including wet beds, insect bites, nap times, rural escapades, playacting at adulthood and what the New York Times writer Richard Woodward has called "their innocent savagery." Most notably the Mann children are commonly photographed nude, in rural idylls and in their beds. ![]() While photographer Sally Mann's work covers a wide range of territory, including exquisite and nostalgic landscape photographs taken with a large format nineteenth-century view camera, it is her black-and-white photographs of children-most frequently her own children-that have struck a vein. ![]()
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