Name: Sally Mann: "The Two Virginias" | ART21 "Exclusive"
Uploaded: 2015-10-09T04:12:59.000Z
Duration: 4 min 22 s
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My parents couldn't agree on where to live.

[May 11, 2000] Well, they went to New Orleans

[May 11, 2000] as soon as they were married,

She was sleeping on the floor in a sweat.

and they split the difference between New Orleans--

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart

And their willingness to experiment with romanticism.

but Virginia may have been the single most important person in my life.

[Virginia & Sally] who worked for my parents for 30 years.

Virginia Carter was born right down the road

and lived in a black community of freed slaves called Buck Hill,

and married very young and had five children.

sent all five children away to boarding school.

Because, of course, you didn't have public school for black children

And then she sent every one of them through college.

[SALLY] This is good. What is this thing?

Going to church with Virginia was an ecstatic moment.

First of all, you'd have to get dressed up, which we didn't do.

[Easter Sunday, 1956] We didn't get dressed up in our family.

When I think of the hardships in her life

it's astonishing that she could love three white children

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