Tierney Gearon

Born: 1963

Atlanta, GA

Never had much formal art training, but did study under a European model photographer in Utah. She then entered the fashion photography industry.

Tierney Gearon is an American photographer who came to fame over the controversy of photos of her nude children that she took and displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in Britain. It drew a media blitz due to police investigations and both support and condemnation from the public. Here are some of her works:

Born: 1951

Lexington City

Married: Larry Mann

Grew up in a household both full of love but also unusual. Her father like to make statues of both the abnormally fantastic and death fantasy. This may have inspired her art in her later years.

Sally Mann is one of the best known American photographers of the modern era. She is known for her large black and white film prints of her children as well as her later landscape portraits that focused on decay and death. She drew criticism for her work in her early years due to the nudity of her children in her photos. Here are some of the most famous photos of her.