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Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women

Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sally Mann (Photographer), Sally Mann (Commentaries by), Ann Beattie (Introduction by)Publish date:2024-12-01Pages:56
Language:EnglishPublisher:ApertureISBN-13:9781597114585ISBN-10:1597114588UPC:9781597114585Book Category:PhotographyBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Individual Photographers, Photoessays & DocumentariesBook Topic:Portraits & Selfies, MonographsSize:11.00 x 9.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCV7H7SD7W

First published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a groundbreaking classic by one of photography's most renowned artists.

At Twelve is Sally Mann's illuminating, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls, taken in the artist's native Rockbridge County, Virginia. The age of twelve brings tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction maintained from the 1988 original publication, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue." The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. The young women in Mann's unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity. The poet Jonathan Williams writes, "Sally Mann's girls are the ones who do the hard looking in At Twelve--be up to it!"

This reissue of At Twelve has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann's prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness true to the original edition.
Language:EnglishPublisher:ApertureISBN-13:9781597114585ISBN-10:1597114588UPC:9781597114585Book Category:PhotographyBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Individual Photographers, Photoessays & DocumentariesBook Topic:Portraits & Selfies, MonographsSize:11.00 x 9.60 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCV7H7SD7W
Mann, Sally: - Sally Mann has remained close to her roots, photographing in the American South since the 1970s. She is renowned for her resonant landscape work, trenchant studies of mortality, and intimate portraits of her children and husband. A Guggenheim fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named America's Best Photographer by Time magazine in 2001. She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994) and What Remains (2007), and in 2011, she presented at Harvard the William E. Massey Sr. Lecture in American Studies, which planted the seeds for Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015). Mann's work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Mann's other Aperture books are Immediate Family (1992, reissued 2014), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (copublished with Gagosian Gallery, 2009), and The Flesh and The Spirit (copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2010).Beattie, Ann: - Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Prize collections. She has received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Rea Award for the Short Story, and she was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publisher: Aperture

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