Jessie at 12
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs capture Mann's daughter Jessie on the cusp of adolescence, rendered in the rich tonal depth characteristic of gelatin silver printing. The diptych format creates a quiet tension between the images, inviting contemplation of girlhood, identity, and the passage of time. Mann's intimate gaze transforms the domestic and familiar into something both tender and haunting, blurring the boundary between childhood and the threshold of womanhood.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print diptych.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs Day Sale
April 2, 2015
Artists in conversation
Emmet Gowin
American · b. 1941
Gowin similarly photographed his wife and children in intimate black and white domestic settings, creating tender yet psychologically complex portraits that blur the line between private family life and haunting artistic revelation.
Judith Joy Ross
American · b. 1946
Ross works in gelatin silver printing to create deeply intimate portraits of children and adolescents that share Mann's quality of capturing vulnerability and the emotional weight of youth on the threshold of change.
Jock Sturges
American · b. 1947
Sturges creates long term black and white photographic studies of families and children over years, similarly exploring girlhood, identity, and the passage of time through an intimate and contemplative documentary gaze.
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