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Hold still : a memoir with photographs / Sally Mann.

By: Language: English Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 482 pages illustrations (some color), portraits, fascimiles 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780316247764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 770.92 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Inz Mann, Sally
Summary: "In this riveting memoir, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's abiding concerns - family, race, mortality, and the storied landsape of the American South - are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by a colorful cast of characters who came before her."--Front dust jacket flap.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This National Book Award finalist is 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.

Includes bibliographical references (page 478).

"In this riveting memoir, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's abiding concerns - family, race, mortality, and the storied landsape of the American South - are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by a colorful cast of characters who came before her."--Front dust jacket flap.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Prologue: The Meuse (p. ix)
  • Part 1 Family Ties: The Importance of Place
  • 1 The Sight of My Eye (p. 3)
  • 2 All the Pretty Horses (p. 9)
  • 3 The Bending Arc (p. 17)
  • 4 The Family of Mann (p. 43)
  • 5 The Remove (p. 63)
  • 6 Our Farm-And the Photographs I Took There (p. 87)
  • 7 Hold Still (p. 99)
  • 8 Ubi Amor, Ibi Oculus Est (p. 131)
  • Part 2 My Mother: Memory of a Memory Past
  • 9 A Sentimental Welshman (p. 169)
  • 10 Uncle Skip and the Little Dears (p. 185)
  • 11 The Southern Landscape (p. 203)
  • Part 3 Gee-Gee: The Matter of Race
  • 12 The Many Questions (p. 243)
  • 13 Hamoo (p. 267)
  • 14 Smothers (p. 273)
  • 15 The Kid on the Road (p. 277)
  • 16 Who Wants to Talk About Slavery? (p. 279)
  • Part 4 My Father: Against the Current of Desire
  • 17 The Munger System (p. 297)
  • 18 Leaving Dallas (p. 347)
  • 19 Mr. Death and His Blue-Eyed Boy (p. 357)
  • 20 World Traveler, Interesting Gent (p. 379)
  • 21 The Cradle and the Grave (p. 399)
  • 22 Bearing Witness (p. 411)
  • 23 The Sublime End (p. 419)
  • 24 The X Above My Head (p. 435)
  • Postscript: Exhibit A, Exhibit B (p. 458)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 479)
  • Photo Credits (p. 482)