Sally Turner Munger (Sally Mann) was born in Lexington, Virginia on May 1st, 1951 to Robert S. Munger and Elizabeth Evans Munger. She was the youngest of three children and their only daughter, she was inspired in the arts area at a young age as her father supported her taking photos. He encouraged him to take photos with his 5x7 camera. In 1969 she graduated from the Putney School where she began using the dark room. She then later attended both Bennington College and Friends World College. In 1974 she earned a B.A, with the highest honor, from Hollins College and an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1975. She also have eight books. In 1984 Sally first book, Second Sight, was published. Mann's first book call "Second Sight" contains her early landscapes and portraits of women. Her second try, "At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women," she takes her female portraiture further than Second Sight by creating images that "captured the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls and expressive printing style lent a dramatic and gloomy mood to all her photos that she took." She thought this would make her images pop even better then then her first book. The consequences of real life: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. Sally does not deny reality, but records it, faces of her subjects in this book to make it a powerful strong book. Her third book showed her as a talented, controversial, and stylistically unique photographic artist. "Immediate Family" is Sally most well-known collection of work, was published in 1992, and gain much positive and negative criticism. The New York Times said of "Immediate Family": "probably no photographer in history has enjoyed such a burst of success in the art world." This book was big disapproval, 65 photographs contained her three children at their summer cabin with a river where they are seen playing and swimming nude. The nude photographs made viewers in rage, especially Christian p