"The winding road that leads to Sally Mann's home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is dotted with lush green fields, where horses graze and gallop when visitors turn a corner. There's a mythical feel to this place, her own "local," which she's called Three Graces. They of Greek mythology, muses to artists since time eternal who also lend their name to a print that the American photographer has yet to show in the United States."
"Emulating traditional representations of the goddesses, Mann and her youngest daughter, Virginia, face forward while the eldest, Jessie, turns toward the ocean. They hold hands and appear graceful and elated as they urinate. Mann calls herself a "chicken" for not including the image in the book. "I'm risk-averse fundamentally. And more so now," she said during a recent conversation at her studio."
Sally Mann lives at Three Graces in the Blue Ridge foothills, surrounded by pastoral fields. A 1995 photograph of Mann and her daughters emulating classical goddesses and urinating remains unshown in the United States due to fears it could be deemed child pornography. Mann calls the image potentially illegal and describes herself as risk-averse for omitting it from her memoir, Art Work. Police seized four Immediate Family photographs from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, including intimate images of a sleeping toddler and a child with a dripping popsicle. Those works evoke Edward Weston's marmoreal Torso of Neil and reignited earlier culture-war controversies, leaving Mann more cautious about exhibiting family photographs.
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