Immediate Family
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Photographer: Sally MannAfterword: Reynolds Price
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-15
ISBN: 0893815187
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Aperture
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Book Review: Stunning photography
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Immediate Family
Mann's subjects are her small children (a boy, a girl and a new baby), often shot when they're sick or hurt or just naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes, vomiting--the usual trials of childhood--can be alarmingly beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann's portrait album. Her ambivalence about motherhood--her delight and despair--pushes Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is astonishing. --Vince Aletti, The Village VoiceArtists, A-Z Books
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