NEW YORK, NY.- In collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and accompanying its landmark 2010 exhibition, Aperture presents Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit (Aperture, November 2010), the first in-depth look at this world-renowned artist’s approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling often-difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Mann’s 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 Mann’s 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, auth