Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs info
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.