At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
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Photographer: Sally MannEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-05-01
ISBN: 0893813303
Number of pages: 56
Publisher: Aperture
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780893813307
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Reviews of At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
Book Review: At Twelve
Summary: 4 Stars
At age twelve Anne Frank wrote, "Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?" Frank was a young Jewish girl living in a time of war, facing the terror of Nazis and concentration camps, all the while trying to understand her growing body and preteen hormones. Of course we should understand the turmoil her soul was dealing with every day. But, what of young girls now? Surely they can't complain in comparison. Sally Mann would disagree.
In Rockbridge County, Virginia, where Mann spent her childhood, she captures the spirit of the only girl on the boy's team, the embarrassment of a new set of braces, as well as the tragedy of teen pregnancy, harassment, child neglect, and poverty. Alongside her black and white portraits, Mann tells the stories of these young women and her own personal experiences with them and their families. The feeling she has for her subjects is made clear in her photographs.
Above all, Sally Mann's book At Twelve portrays lovely, strong women. The lighting is often soft, but the focus is always direct. There are few sources of light that are diffused through a window or stream through some trees, always falling on the subject. Without inviting politics or bitterness into her photographs, Mann captures the difficult truth of growing up, a truth unchanged by time, or place, or background.
Summary of At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
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 pgsMann, Sally Books
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