Sally Mann: The Two Virginias, ART21 Exclusive

Episode, 208: Photographer Sally Mann reflects on the life of Virginia Franklin Carter (18941994), an African American woman who helped raise the artist and her two brothers in Lexington, Virginia. My parents were important but Virginia may have been the single most important person in my life, says Mann, who named her youngest daughter after Carter. They are pictured together in Mann s series The Two Mann interviewed Carter s children for her forthcoming memoir Hold Still, due out in May