Famille immédiate
de Reynolds Price, Sally Mann (Photographies)

Quatrième de couverture
Voici des photographies de mes enfants vivant à présent leur vie à eux, ici aussi. Un bon nombre de ces photographies sont des moments intimes, des moments fantastiques ou des histoires, mais la plupart d'entre elles présentent simplement des scènes ordinaires connues de toutes les mères. Je prends des photographies d'eux lorsqu'ils sont en sang, malades, nus ou fâchés. Ils se déguisent, ils font la moue, ils posent, ils se peinturlurent le corps et ils plongent comme des loutres dans le fleuve sombre. - Sally Mann, passage de son introduction

Sally Mann's Immediate Family
de Mann

Book Description
"Mann's subjects are her small children (a boy, a girl, and a new baby), often shot when they're sick or hurt or just naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes, vomiting--the usual trials of childhood--can be alarmingly beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann's portrait album. Her ambivalence about motherhood--her delight and despair--pushes Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is astonishing." --Vince Aletti, The Village Voice "Immediate Family, which was published in 1990, must be counted as one of the great photograph books of our time. It is a singularly powerful evocation of childhood from within and without ..." --Luc Sante, The New Republic Afterword by Reynolds Price. Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in./88 pgs Ce texte se rapporte à l'édition Relié.

Ingram
Terror, self-discovery, doubt, vulnerability, pain, and joy all clash and converge in Mann's powerful photographs. Sally Mann's widely acclaimed Immediate Family, which explores childhood with unparalleled emotional depth, is now available in paperback for the first time. Ce texte se rapporte à l'édition Broché.

About the author
Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her husband and three children, whom she continues to photograph as part of an ongoing project. All of the photographs in Immediate Family were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera.

Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, in 1933. His 1962 novel A Long and Happy Life received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel, and has never been out of print. He has published numerous other books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Books Critics Circle Award. He has also published volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, a memoir, and he has written for the screen and for television. He is a member of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
de Sally Mann, Ann Beattie (Introduction)

Book Description
At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue." Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets." --Karen Lipson, Newsday At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose-what adults make of that pose may be the issue." Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets." -Karen Lipson, Newsday "Sally Mann's photography is a clear pane . . . not intrusion, but revelation. These young women distill something for the eye . . . something beautiful and sad and moving, something purely female." -Diane Sawyer Introduction by Ann Beattie. Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in./56 pgs

Ingram
Mann's photographs reflect the lives and desires of 12-year-old girls with disturbing equanimity, resulting in a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. 37 black-and-white photos.

About the author
Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Her first book was Second Sight. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children who are the subject of Immediate Family (Aperture, 1992). In July 2001, Time magazine named Sally Mann "America's Best Photographer."

Ann Beattie, a preeminent writer of her generation, has written several books, including the novels Chilly Scenes of Winter and Falling in Place; the short-story collections Distortions and Where You'll Find Me; and Alex Katz, a monograph of the painter's work.

What Remains
de Sally Mann (Photographies)

Book Description
Internationally acclaimed artist, Sally Mann, named 'America's Best' photographer in 2001 by Time-® magazine, offers this deeply felt meditation on morality. Renowned for her candid portrayal of family life (Immediate Family), her revealing study of girlhood (At Twelve), and landscapes from the American South (Mother Land and Deep South), internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a powerful new body of work on the one subject that affects us all. In WHAT REMAINS, a five-part meditation on mortality, Mann focuses her lens on the ineffable divide between body and soul, the means by which life takes leave of this earth, and the manner in which it rejoins it. Mann's new photographs are by turns shocking and sublime. An armed fugitive is hunted down by police. She photographs the scars left on her property after the incident. A series of brooding, otherworldly landscapes made at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam is followed by a group of close-up portraits of Mann's own children, floating in the inky black atmosphere of the nineteenth-century ambrotype; another series taken at a forensics study site offers an unflinching look at the process of decomposition, as do images of a beloved pet greyhound-long since departed. Made with the collodion process, using glass plates, the resulting images are at once painterly, sculptural, and photographic.

About the author
Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1951 and lives there today with her family and seven rescued greyhounds.