"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 Voice "Immediate Family, which was published in 1990, must be counted as one of the great photograph books of our time. It is a singularly powerful evocation of childhood from within and without ..." --Luc Sante, The New Republic Afterword by Reynolds Price. Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in./88 pgs
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Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her husband and three children, whom she continues to photograph as part of an ongoing project. All of the photographs in Immediate Family were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera.
Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, in 1933. His 1962 novel A Long and Happy Life received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel, and has never been out of print. He has published numerous other books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Books Critics Circle Award. He has also published volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, a memoir, and he has written for the screen and for television. He is a member of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.
Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, in 1933. His 1962 novel A Long and Happy Life received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel, and has never been out of print. He has published numerous other books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Books Critics Circle Award. He has also published volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, a memoir, and he has written for the screen and for television. He is a member of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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A very good book which deals intimately with family life. Sally Mann is clearly the loving mother of some very self-possessed and self-aware children. I was concerned before I saw the book about some of the tales that I had heard regarding the content. Frankly, anyone who finds this book prurient needs psychiatric help. Some of the pictures are shocking, it is true, but not in that sense- the viewer is shocked by an awareness of their own inability to help when confronted with the image of a boy with a smashed nose and lip or a girl, unconscious on the surgeon's table, with multiple stitches in a gash on her forehead. Mann understands her antecedents, and there are strong echoes of Weston and Eugene Smith to name but two in this work. The fact is that bringing up children (and I speak as the father of four) is both shocking and beautiful, as are these pictures.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
I was unaware of the controversy regarding Mrs. Mann's work until recently and find the harsh words totally unwarranted and the attitudes unbelievable. This book reflects her understanding of what it's like to be a child in a rural environment and has NOTHING to do with pornography.
The nudity which some find so shocking is natural for kids. It's not until later when we learn our bodies are "bad" that we stop displaying them. That some attach the nudity in the shots of her children with sex speaks poorly of them and those who perpetuate this attitude.
This is a wonderful book that most of you will appreciate and identify with, making you recall memories of your own youth. And, if you were brought up in a suburban area you'll even learn some of what it's like being a kid in the country. However, if your looking for a book with snapshots of smiling kids, you'll be disappointed. This is a photo essay on an all too brief time of our lives, with the pictures being neither cute nor pretty, the photographer having chosen instead to show emotion and reality, and has done so beautifully.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
When I first opened this book, I was shocked by the images of a bloody nose and a cut eye. But as I perused this book, I relized that all of these photographs showed different sides of childhood. The pain, the joy, and the unadulterated innocence. Sally Mann is truely talented in the art of photography. This book touched my heart like it has never been touched before.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
"I grew up around nude kids. I went nude whenever I could back then and have continued going nude at every opportunity throughout my life. When I leaf through 'Immediate Family', I see kids doing what I and the other kids did, and what naturist kids still do. I relate to the Mann kids as fellow human beings and fellow naturists." No, I didn't write that. I wish I did. That was the response I got from Jon McCreight of the Minnesota Naturists when I asked him for his comment. I don't know who I envy more, Mr. McCreight or Sally Mann's three children. Having grown up in a puritanical family, I have since envied children who are allowed to corporeally admire others and to be corporeally admired in return.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
I find it a pity if issues of childhood and whatever blinds anybody to the fact that Sally Mann is one of our greatest photographers, judged on pure aesthetics. Simply awesome. The word is Beauty.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
All of the photographs in this collection were taken with an 8x10 view camera, even those that have the appearance of candid, random snapshots. Many of the images are carefully manipulated in the darkroom to give one of the subjects an eerie, almost angelic luminescence in scenes dominated by hardship, tragedy, and crushing rural poverty. Sally Mann is a major artist, supported by Guggenheim, NEH and NEA grants, and this is some of her very best work. Readers should be warned that some will consider this work to border on child pornography. While this is absolutely not the case (and I vigorously support prosecution of those who exploit children in any fashion), in some localities this could almost be a "dangerous" book to own. Sally Mann's disturbing and transcendent vision will outlast our current hysteria and misunderstanding and will endure as photographic literature.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
The pictures can stir you up. Growing up is not always beautiful. Unbelievable how this mother can capture those moments.Is it the family, is it the surrounding, or just the moments? Just once do I want to take a picture like that and I will start with my own children. Did somebody notice that the children are sometimes nude? What else would they be?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A wonderful document of growing up as kids actually live it.
Beautiful b&w photography...forever compels me to dust off my good
camera, load it up with fine-grain b&w film and try my hand at it.
Ms. Mann's text is also good, complementing rather than describing
the photographs. Recomended, even if you're not into photographic
"art books"
Beautiful b&w photography...forever compels me to dust off my good
camera, load it up with fine-grain b&w film and try my hand at it.
Ms. Mann's text is also good, complementing rather than describing
the photographs. Recomended, even if you're not into photographic
"art books"
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Excellent book
Beautiful photographs very well printed. Inspiring photographer though sometimes controversial I like her and this book inspires me. I find nothing offensive in here at all.
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. A. Andrews
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Beautiful images..
I like taking pictures of my family, and I've taken some pretty cool ones.. But I am nowhere near as good as Sally Mann.. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Henrik Hansen
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A small book of personal photographs
I bought this book when first published as a present for someone who had only recently become a first-time parent. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Claptonian
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nice book
Stunning photographs of Sally Mann's children and relatives. For B&W photography lovers or Sally Mann followers.I've really enjoyed these capturing images. Great piece of work.
Published 15 months ago by kelechi
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The perfect family album
I wish I had a picture of me with a bleeding nose. Emmet does. Wonderful slices of childhood, as true as they get.
Published 16 months ago by Joujou
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Amazing book
Poetic and beautiful images, a quality of black & white photos you rarely see these days. Intimate and dream-like.
A classic.
A classic.
Published on 27 Mar 2011 by Julie Chaussat
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Sally Mann Immediate family
A very interesting book, following the early years of the authors children early years, I am sure that there will be some people who will look at this book differently.
Published on 24 Mar 2011 by Michael Bird
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Sally Mann has inspired me-a fantastic collection
This book was a joy to read and observe, it definitely deserves the full marks....a totally inspiring and astounding book- cover to cover.
Published on 21 Oct 1999
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Disturbing
Mann's photographs in "Immediate Family" are certainly beautiful technically. I want to like this woman who also grew up in the '60s and speaks so tenderly in her... Read more
Published on 25 April 1999
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Photo's which remind us of our search for identity.
Sally Mann is a master at capturing emotion. Her family photographs bring the observer back to the days of self discovery and the search for ones own identity. Read more
Published on 12 April 1999
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