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Title: Immediate Family by Sally Mann, Reynolds Price ISBN: 0-89381-518-7 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (21 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Help Needed in making this book
Comment: I am so sore that I bought this book. I wonder why it is even printed at all. The photos are unartistic snapshots of a couple of hillbillies families and a few are out of focus and taken with shaky hands. I wish Sally would learn how to shoot.
The subject of most photos are uninteresting. Look toward Jock Sturges or David Hamilton's books instead
Rating: 2
Summary: Maybe It's Just Me...
Comment: I viewed this book only once in a store and decided it is not the one for me. Technically Sally Mann is a fine photographer who is obviously at the top of her game. Her subject matter had tremendous potential! But there was one glaring problem: the children did not appear to be enjoying childhood, but appeared sad, psychologically disconnected, emotionally abused, rejected, of low self-esteem, and physically battered. There was even one photo a boy with a broken nose and blood all over his chest. I have seen my share of children get hurt while playing, and have even seen a boy fall from a tree, snapping the bones in his forearm in half. What I saw that day was not a moment of inspiration. Therefore, shock value, "artistic" interpretation of childhood emotions, or whatever the thrust of this book is, I cannot see myself ever owning it. It is too dark, depressing and menacing. Personally I think plenty of imaginative artistic themes can be produced with happy children who are not busted up or who appear endangered. I own a copy of the works of Salvador Dali; his art is certainly disturbing...but not like this. I can appreciate Dali's art or even Michael Parkes' and Jan Saudek's, but this publication is too real and too chilling. I would very much love to see Sally Mann's other works, however, because she is a fine photographer and must surely have a more "light-hearted" production of children's photos. If not, then Sally Mann is best left to those who take pleasure in "dark" art.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning photography
Comment: It's perplexing to me that this book should garner any controversy. I am not a proponent of "naturism" nor is anyone in my family. I grew up with what I consider to be among the best, most loving, protective and capable parents ever. But if Sally Mann's work constitutes something immoral or illegal, then my parents and those of most of my friends should be arrested for the content of our family photo albums. The photos in this book are nothing more or less than extraordinarily beautiful captures an ordinary childhood. Any one of the photos could have been taken at my house growing up (with, of course, a gifted photographer) under normal circumstances. My sister basically refused to wear clothes until she was 5. We actually lived in an apartment building then and she was known to run naked in the hallways if my parents opened the door a crack. As a result, there are a hell of a lot of photos of my sister naked as a child. There's nothing exploitative or innapropriate about any of them, nor do I get any sense of impropriety whatsoever with Mann's photos. I suspect that any impropriety perceived has to do with the person looking at the photo - and by extension that individual's cultural sensibilities and personal experience - rather than the photos themselves, and likewise, unfortunately I think I can safely presume that they didn't cause a ripple of controversy anywhere outside of the US. They are simply stunning works of photography. The one of her daughter wearing the rollerskates on the porch is one of my favorites, perhaps because it reminds me most of my own childhood. The rural Virginian setting is remarkable in its own right and as a backdrop no doubt makes the photos even more evocative for those who, unlike myself, grew up in similar environs.
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Title: Still Time by Sally Mann ISBN: 0893815934 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 08 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women by Sally Mann, Ann Beattie ISBN: 089381296X Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Last Day of Summer by Jock Sturges ISBN: 0893815381 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: What Remains by Sally Mann ISBN: 0821228439 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Jock Sturges: New Work by Jock Sturges ISBN: 3908247365 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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