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Tall among them is Sally Mann. After she completed college, Mann, 50, returned to her hometown in Virginia. There she and her lawyer husband have raised a family, and Mann has carried out the duties of wife and mother with the fixed concentration visible in all her art. Till the children left home, she focused her camera on her immediate periphery--the encircling mountains, her rural and small-town neighbors, her parents, her handsome husband and her son and two daughters...
...photographs of the children, published in 1992 as Immediate Family, that brought Mann's work to the attention of a wide audience. Mann recorded a combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments of childhood repose and revealingly--sometimes unnervingly--imaginative play. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. No other collection of family photographs is remotely like it, in both its naked candor and the fervor of its maternal curiosity...
...expecting him to just pat us on the back," said Jason R. Mann '01. "I appreciated his honesty and the way he just leveled with...
...Shira was a native of Englewood, N.J. and graduated from Horace Mann High School in Riverdale, N.Y., where she was active in the school’s drama department...
...Paul A. Gusmorino ’02, who attended Horace Mann with Shira, said he has fond memories of performing with her in the school’s production of “Guys and Dolls...