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Mann, Sally, 1951-
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Mann, Sally, 1951-
Mann, Sally, 1951- -- Family.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.
Photography of children.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
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Mann, Sally, 1951-
Mann, Sally, 1951-
Mann, Sally, 1951- -- Family.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.
Photography of children.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
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Hold
still
: a
memoir
with
photographs
/ Sally Mann.
by
Mann, Sally, 1951-
Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Call #:
770.92 M282h
Subjects
Mann, Sally, 1951-
Mann, Sally, 1951- -- Family.
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography.
Photography of children.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction.
ISBN:
9780316247764 (hc.)
0316247766 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xiv, 482 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 478).
Contents:
Prologue: The Meuse -- Family ties: the importance of place. The sight of my eye ; All the pretty horses ; The bending arc ; The family of Mann ; The remove ; Our farm, and the
photographs
I took there ;
Hold
still
; Ubi amor, ibi oculus est -- My mother: memory of a memory past. A sentimental welshman ; Uncle Skip and the little dears ; The southern landscape -- Gee-Gee: the matter of race. The many questions ; Hamoo ; Smothers ; The kid on the road ; Who wants to talk about slavery? -- My father: against the current of desire. The munger system ; Leaving Dallas ; Mr. death and his blue-eyed boy ; World traveler, interesting gent ; The cradle and the grave ; Bearing witness ; The sublime end ; The x above my head -- Postscript: Exhibit A, Exhibit B.
Summary:
In this unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed
photographs
she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land, racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing
photographs
, she crafts an original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life. Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white
photographs
-- at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Mann is perhaps best known for "Immediate Family," her third collection, first exhibited in 1990 by Edwynn Houk Gallery in Chicago and published in 1992. The book consists of 65 black-and-white
photographs
of her three children. Many of the pictures were taken at the family's remote summer cabin along the river, where the children played and swam. Many explore typical childhood themes but others touch on darker themes such as insecurity, loneliness, injury and death. The controversy on its release was intense.
Awards:
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, 2016.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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