And the work that resulted has changed the lives of all involved. Eight years ago, their mother began to chronicle their growing up - the wet beds, insect bites, nap times, their aspirations toward adulthood and their innocent savagery. The Mann children have endured scrutiny for some time now. All three seemed unconcerned by the fact that on the surrounding white walls they could be examined, up close, totally nude.
“These shoes cost $70,” he boasted about his opening night footwear. Beneath a portrait of himself in the water, Emmett shrugged off the stares and expressed a typical teen-age frame of mind. While her mother and father conversed with friends and admirers, Jessie orbited the four rooms in her red dress, fielding questions from strangers eager to know more about her parents. Motoring among the spectators like honorees at a testimonial dinner, Mann’s three children - Emmett, 12, Jessie, 10, and Virginia, 7 - looked completely at ease with the crowd’s prying adoration. Īt the opening last spring of “Immediate Family,” Sally Mann’s show at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York, the winsome young subjects of the photographs aroused as much curiosity as the artist herself. 27, 1992, and is discussed in an article by Sally Mann in the April 19 issue. This cover story appeared in the magazine on Sept.
