Hold still a memoir with photographs

Photographer Sally 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 fi...

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Main Author: Mann, Sally, 1951- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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520 |a Photographer Sally 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." 
505 0 |a Prologue: The Meuse -- Family ties: The importance of place. The sight of my eye ; All the pretty horses ; The bending arc ; The family of Mann ; The remove ; Our farm, and the photographs I took there ; Hold still ; Ubi amor, ibi oculus est -- My mother: Memory of a memory past. A sentimental Welshman ; Uncle Skip and the little dears ; The southern landscape -- Gee-Gee: The matter of race. The many questions ; Hamoo ; Smothers ; The kid on the road ; Who wants to talk about slavery? -- My father: Against the current of desire. The Munger system ; Leaving Dallas ; Mr. Death and his blue-eyed boy ; World traveler, interesting gent ; The cradle and the grave ; Bearing witness ; The sublime end ; The x above my head -- Postscript: Exhibit A, Exhibit B. 
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