Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally.
Her many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010). A feature film about her work, What Remains, debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. She lives in Virginia.
"Hold Still is a wild ride of a memoir. Visceral and visionary.
Fiercely beautiful. My kind of true adventure."--Patti Smith,
musician and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids
"Few photographers of any time or place have matched Sally Mann's
steadiness of simple eyesight, her serene technical brilliance, and
the clearly communicated eloquence she derives from her subjects,
human and otherwise - subjects observed with an ardor that is all
but indistinguishable from love."--Reynolds Price, Time
"For three decades Sally Mann has captured images that are unique,
haunting, beautiful, disturbing, stark - it would take a mid-sized
thesaurus to hold all the adjectives that have been used to
describe both the art and the artist. In Hold Still, she wraps her
prose around her pictures, revealing a fine talent for writing and
a rich family history."--John Grisham, author of The Firm and
Sycamore Row
"In Hold Still, Sally Mann demonstrates a talent for storytelling
that rivals her talent for photography. The book is riveting,
ravishing -- diving deep into family history to find the origins of
art. I couldn't take my eyes off of it."--Ann Patchett, author of
Bel Canto and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
"One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a
photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws
upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could
provide the grist for a dozen novels. With prodigious intellect and
a telling instinct for the exact detail that will reveal character
or throw it into question, Mann delves into the treacherous
territory of memory, mesmerized by the relentless dance of beauty
and decay. In doing so, she manifests in prose the acuity of seeing
that has propelled her to the top rank of contemporary
artists."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree and The
Noonday Demon
"Photographer Sally Mann's book Hold Still is one of the great
portraits of the American South. Written in her pitch perfect prose
style, it is a textbook of illumination and desire for anyone who
hears the siren call of art beckoning to them. It's southern to the
bone, hell on wheels. Hold Still is a masterpiece."--Pat Conroy,
author of The Death of Santini and South of Broad
"Sally Mann's Hold Still is just like her pictures: forthright,
adventurous, loving, fearless, beautiful, intimate, and somehow
uncanny. That means it's probably just like her."--Luc Sante,
author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings
"There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place,
a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into
the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of
creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and
haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art
itself."--Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of The Place You Love is
Gone
"This spectacular modern memoir reads like a sweeping gothic novel,
filled with mystery, violence, controversy, and, of course, love in
all its forms. It is a literary family album enlivened by many of
the images in the stories told. A Southern work, it is also
universally accessible, as all of Sally Mann's work is, for she
reaches deep into her ancestral headwaters and the twisted rivers
of human remembrance. A triumph."--Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
"What I admire most about Sally Mann's new book is not her ability
to write captivating sentences--she does. It's the honesty and
fearlessness, the two mixed together, compelling her to own up to
her mistakes, to acknowledge her winnings, to accept her losses
(and those of her family). For this quality alone, Hold Still
deserves a fixed place in the library of American memoir."--Paul
Hendrickson, author of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in
Life, and Lost
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