Yard Eggs
A hauntingly intimate gelatin silver print by Sally Mann, *Yard Eggs* captures the quiet, poetic beauty of rural Southern life through Mann's signature use of rich tonal contrast and luminous black-and-white imagery. The photograph evokes a sense of timelessness and domestic simplicity, grounding everyday objects within the broader narrative of childhood, nature, and memory that defines much of Mann's work.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 1, 2014
Estimate: $6,000 to $8,000
Sold: $7,500
Artists in conversation
Emmet Gowin
American · b. 1941
Gowin's intimate black and white gelatin silver prints of his family and rural Virginia home share the same poetic domesticity and timeless quality seen in Yard Eggs, rendering everyday life with luminous tonal depth and emotional resonance.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
American · b. 1925
Meatyard's large format black and white photography of Southern rural life carries the same haunting, melancholic atmosphere and sense of memory found in this piece, blending the ordinary with an unsettling poetic stillness.
Clarence John Laughlin
American · b. 1905
Laughlin's gelatin silver prints rooted in the American South share the Southern Gothic sensibility and rich tonal contrast of Yard Eggs, elevating quiet domestic and natural subjects into evocative meditations on time and place.
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