Sally Mann Knihy

Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, this masterful facsimile edition of a groundbreaking classic features poignant portraits of young women. The book highlights the unique stories and experiences of its subjects, capturing the essence of youth and femininity. With its rich visual narrative, it remains a significant contribution to the exploration of identity and representation in contemporary photography.

Mann's photographs of her husband, Larry, who has late-onset muscular dystrophy

This is a book of remarkable images - intense and intimate - recording the photographer's children as they explore their woodland home in Virginia. The striking photographs show the ambiguities and dramas of family life, hauntingly evoking the mysteries of childhood. All of the photographs in Immediate Familywere taken with an 8" x 10" view camera. As Sally Mann herself says in the introduction: 'These are photographs of my children ... many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river.' The result is a book that is ethereal, tender and sometimes eerily disquieting: a distinctly human work - at once personal and universal - that is magnetically seductive.

A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Exploring the origins of creativity, this memoir delves into the life of one of America's foremost artists. Sally Mann intertwines narrative and imagery to reveal how her artistic focus on family, race, mortality, and the Southern landscape is deeply rooted in her ancestry. The book reflects on the profound influence of her family history on her work, suggesting that her artistic impulses are almost genetically ingrained.

Through her photographs inside Twombly's studio Sally Mann captures his artistic life without his actual presence.