Famille immédiate

Sally Mann
Famille immédiate

Photographs: Sally Mann

Text: Reynolds Price

Publisher: Aperture

88 pages

Year: 1992

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 25 x 29 cm, b&w photographs. First edition, 1991. Dust jacket in good condition, edgewear and various marks. Inside in very good condition. Text in French.

Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. With sublime dignity, acute wit and feral grace, Sally Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy—the holding on and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in these astonishing photographs.

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