A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a 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. “Photographer Sally Mann’s book Hold Still is one of the great portraits of the American South. Written in her pitch perfect prose style, it is a textbook of illumination and desire for anyone who hears the siren call of art beckoning to them. It’s southern to the bone, hell on wheels. · Hold Still by Sally Mann review – a controversial artist's seductive memoir In the s Sally Mann’s photographs made headlines for depicting her children in the nude. In a new memoir, she. At boarding school, Mann took her first photography class and began to discover what she calls the “thrill” of seeing the negative in front of her.
Hold Still is a masterpiece."—Pat Conroy, author of The Death of Santini and South of Broad "In Hold Still, Sally Mann demonstrates a talent for storytelling that rivals her talent for photography. The book is riveting, ravishing -- diving deep into family history to find the origins of art. Recorded One of America's most intriguing photographers, Sally Mann's trademark large black-and-white images of her family and the American South. Sally Mann is that rare master of both pictures and words, and her memoir shows off that mastery: the visual images are perfectly woven into the text to tell her story. (While best known for her photography, Mann holds a BA in literature and an MA in creative writing.).
Before reading “Hold Still,” my knowledge of Sally Mann was based entirely on her photographs of her family on their Virginia farm, her dreamlike Southern landscapes, and some memory of the. Hold Still. A Memoir With Photographs. By Sally Mann (Little, Brown; pages; $32). Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs is a memoir by American photographer Sally Mann. Most of the memoir was written between and , as she prepared to give Harvard’s Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Mann probes her early intellectual and creative memories to articulate how she became a photographer, as well as how she developed her iconic themes and subjects.
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