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. racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." 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. The paper accompanied it with a nude image of Virginia that had run on the cover of Aperture Magazine in 1990. 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. Sally Mann Damaged Child, 1984 Phillips Bidding closed The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed in February 1991 by food writer Raymond Sokolov critiquing Mann’s work. This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. A memoir quite unlike any other, this book by American photographer Sally Mann weaves together words and images to form a vivid personal history, revealing the ways in which Mann’s ancestry has informed the themes that dominate her work (namely family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South).
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