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What Remains [Hardcover]

Sally Mann
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  • Hardcover: 132 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (1 Oct 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0821228439
  • ISBN-13: 978-0821228432
  • Product Dimensions: 32.7 x 1.9 x 29.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 111,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A collection of more than eighty tritone photographs highlights a five-part reflection on mortality, the separation of body and soul, life and death, the moment of death, and the manner in which life renews the earth. By the author of Immediate Family.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is there life after life? 20 Oct 2005
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Format:Hardcover
This is an important book by an important photographer. The subject is death and the subject is approached and confronted with candor and tenderness.

The photographs were made using a wet plate process that is fraught with technical imperfections. But technical perfection is not the goal. The goal is emotional and the goal is achieved brilliantly.

From the bones of a beloved greyhound to decomposing human corpses at a forensic "body farm" to battlefield landscapes, the photographs confront death with staggering beauty. The final chapter, consisting of close-ups of the faces of her family, is a fitting summation of what remains that really matters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A study in mortality 15 Jan 2010
Format:Hardcover
"Unless you photograph what you love, you're not gonna make good art"; Sally Mann

I had seen some of Sally Mann's work before in the US, but it wasn't until after I had seen the exhibition "The Family and The Land" over in Europe that I was really blown away by her work. Serene photographs about the inevitable... death and decay. Of loved ones such as her deceased dog, but also of the countless bodies on the Forensic Study Facilty in Tennessee. A harsh reality but she makes you think about life and death and about what happens after we die. What really remains of us besides our bones?
Most of the photographs in this book were part of that exhibition and while the book itself really showcases the power and brilliance of this amazing artist, these prints ultimately need to be seen on a large scale. The technical imperfections caused by the glass plate technique add to the power of her work.

The books ends with portraits of her three children, each print of equally breath taking beauty. I guess love is what remains...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult and beautiful 20 Aug 2010
By Jaybird
Format:Hardcover
What Remains faces the process of death with clarity and calmness.

Some of the photos are shocking, but Mann handles the subject without sentimentality or sensationalism. Her use of an antique camera emphasis the organic nature of her subjects and emphasises the textures. So there is a photograph of corpse, barely more than a skeleton, with a skeleton's shocking grin, but a loveliness and delicacy to the skin across the chest which references the fallen leaves around and there are intense close-ups of her three adult children, which reduces their features to a surface, reminiscent of a death mask and devoid of the animation and personality which characterised her photos of them when they were young.
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