At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
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Photographer: Sally MannEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-15
ISBN: 0893813303
Number of pages: 56
Publisher: Aperture
Book Reviews of At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women
Book Review: poignant, painful, and so true
Summary: 5 Stars
I read all of the reviews before getting this book, and almost didn't buy it because of the negative feedback. I loved Immediate Family, as did many of the other reviewers, and feared that this book would not be as good - as indicated by many of the reviews. I ended up getting it, however, as it is a gift for my teen-age daughter who is an up and coming photographer. I figured that even if the other reviews were right - that the pictures were just images and not "artistic," or that the scenes were all wrong in a protect-your-children kind of way - then my daughter would still enjoy the book as a photographer with an eye for composition.
I am not one bit sorry that I bought the book. Yes, the photos are less "artistic" than Immediate Family, and yes, the book is more blunt in its subject matter, which makes it more painful and not as protective of the children. However, it absolutely captures being 12 and girl-woman - in all of the painful, stubborn, beautiful, childish, and grown-up ways that being 12 actually is.
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
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