Personal Life
Mann has three children: Emmett, born in 1979, who for a time joined the Peace Corps, Jessie (herself an artist, photographer and model), born in 1981, and Virginia (now a lawyer), born in 1985. Mann lives on a farm in Virginia with her husband, Larry. He is a full-time attorney, and has muscular dystrophy, with progressive weakness.
Mann is passionate about endurance horse racing. In 2006, Mann's horse ruptured an aneurysm while she was riding him. In the horse's death throes, Mann was thrown to the ground and the impact broke her back. It took her two years to recover from the accident and during this time, she made a series of ambrotype self-portraits. These self-portraits were on view for the first time in November 2010 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a part of Sally Mann: the Flesh and the Spirit.
She is currently represented by the Gagosian Gallery of New York City, and the Edwynn Houk Gallery also of New York City. The latter has a show of Mann's works opening September 13, 2012.
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“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)