Sally Mann’s latest body of work, Proud Flesh opens Tuesday, September 15 at Gagosian Gallery in New York City coinciding with Aperture’s publication of her monograph by the same name. A deeply personal and moving project, these candid nudes of her husband, Larry Mann, explore subtle complexities between both man and woman, and artist and subject. Her unique production process gives a painterly feel to the images, which are contact prints from wet-plate collodion negatives that are produced by coating a sheet of glass with ether-based collodion and submerging in silver nitrate.  Be sure to attend the opening reception of this inspirational body of work from one of contemporary photography’s icons.

Click here to view Sally Mann: Proud Flesh available soon through Aperture.

Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, September 15—Saturday, October 31, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009  6:00 pm

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 744-2313

Coinciding with the exhibition opening at Gagosian Gallery on September 15, Aperture will release Sally Mann’s latest monograph, Proud Flesh this fall. Her latest body of work is focused primarily on her husband and their thirty-nine year relationship, in the fashion of male artists whose female lovers serve as muses. The black-and-white photographs are psychologically intense and emotionally evocative and honest. Jörg Colberg of Concientious features some of Mann’s reflections on her work, click here to read. Aperture previously published At Twelve and Immediate Family, and is proud to present a third title from one of America’s most renowned photographers.