David Levi Strauss

Sally Mann

Anne Tucker

John B. Ravenal

In collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and accompanying its landmark 2010 exhibition, Aperture is pleased to publish Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, the first in-depth look at this world-renowned artists approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling o!en di"cult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Manns earliest platinum prints from the late 1970s, Polaroid still lifes, early color work of her children, haunting landscape images, recent self-portraits, and nude studies of her husband. The series document Manns interest in the body as principal subject, with the associated issues of vulnerability and mortality lending an elegiac note to her images. In bringing them together, author and curator John Ravenal examines the varied ways in which Manns experimental approach, including ambrotypes and gelatinsilver prints made from collodian wet-plate negatives, moves her subjects from the corporeal to the ethereal. Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, a one-of-a-kind publication, is a must for any serious library of photographic literature, students, scholars, collectors, and others interested in her work. Ravenal has written a comprehensive introduction as well as individual entries on each series, and essays by David Levi Strauss (Eros, Psyche, and the Mendacity of Photography) and Anne Wilkes Tucker (Living Memory) add di#erent, but equally illuminating perspectives to this work.

The Flesh and the Spirit

Ce catalogue d'exposition exxplore la relation entre les artistes Jasper Johns et Edvard Munch.

Inspiration and Transformation

Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch

Anderson Gallery

"Pour ces artistes, la lumière -naturelle et artificielle- est le moyen de poser les questions de la perception, la mémoire, l'énergie et le pouvoir. Influencés par les pionniers de la sculpture de lumière des années 60 et 70, comme Dan Flavin, James Turrell et Bruce Nauman, ces artistes d'une nouvelle génération ont étendu l'utilisation de la lumière comme forme sculpturale pour adresser un large éventail de préoccupations. Le titre de l'exposition se réfère au fait que la lumière électrique sert de matière principale, mais il se réfère aussi aux thèmes liés au concept d'artifice, comme la technologie, la nature, la beauté et le mystère.

John B. Ravenal

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