Hold still

a memoir with photographs

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Sally Mann: Hold still (2015)

482 pages

English language

Published Sept. 19, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-316-24776-4
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OCLC Number:
890625865

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4 stars (4 reviews)

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. 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 a totally 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.

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Review of 'Hold still' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This book is a dreamy kind of autobiography. Mann writes of childhood, adolescence with a piercing, yet slow eye, while delving into her starting out as a photographer with an acute sense of self-examination. Her handling of the whole thing where she was accused of being a paedophile, someone who used her kids to sell pictures without a care in the world for them, is really well-handled, I feel.

All in all, a good book on growing up, including sexuality, love, dislikes and work. Grew a bit tedious towards the end, but then, don't some of us?

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Review of 'Hold still' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This book is a dreamy kind of autobiography. Mann writes of childhood, adolescence with a piercing, yet slow eye, while delving into her starting out as a photographer with an acute sense of self-examination. Her handling of the whole thing where she was accused of being a paedophile, someone who used her kids to sell pictures without a care in the world for them, is really well-handled, I feel.

All in all, a good book on growing up, including sexuality, love, dislikes and work. Grew a bit tedious towards the end, but then, don't some of us?

reviewed Hold still by Sally Mann

Review of 'Hold still' on 'LibraryThing'

3 stars

This book is a dreamy kind of autobiography. Mann writes of childhood, adolescence with a piercing, yet slow eye, while delving into her starting out as a photographer with an acute sense of self-examination. Her handling of the whole thing where she was accused of being a paedophile, someone who used her kids to sell pictures without a care in the world for them, is really well-handled, I feel.

All in all, a good book on growing up, including sexuality, love, dislikes and work. Grew a bit tedious towards the end, but then, don't some of us?

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Subjects

  • Family
  • Women photographers
  • Biography

Places

  • United States