{"title":"Books by Sally Mann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241774540","title":"Art Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt Work\u003c\/i\u003e, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers—or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, \u003ci\u003eHold Still,\u003c\/i\u003e this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated throughout with photographs, journal entries, and letters that bring immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, \u003ci\u003eArt Work\u003c\/i\u003e is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise; the unpredictable role of luck; the value of work, work, work, and more hard work; the challenges of rejection and distraction; the importance of risk-taking; and the rewards of knowing why and when you say yes. In sparkling prose and thoughtfully juxtaposed visuals and ephemera, \u003ci\u003eArt Work \u003c\/i\u003eis a generous, provocative, and compulsively readable exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55897267536245,"sku":"9780241774540","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682594300277,"sku":"9781802068313","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241774540_ca1fcd88-2b5d-4aff-ae40-a43170a0590c.jpg?v=1792511534"},{"product_id":"9781633451049","title":"Dorothea Lange: Words + Pictures","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305128079733,"sku":"9781633451049","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781633451049_c0721b8e-cce4-428b-9b27-5dcd0285d957.jpg?v=1786023432"},{"product_id":"sally-mann-at-twelve-portraits-of-young-women-30th-anniversary-edition","title":"Sally Mann","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst published by Aperture in 1988, \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve: Portraits of Young Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking classic by one of photography’s most renowned artists. Aperture is reoriginating it in a masterful facsimile edition that retains the purity of the original.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of 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, “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. Poet Jonathan Williams writes, “Sally Mann’s girls are the ones who do the hard looking in \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e—be up to it!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis reissue of \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and sumptuousness true to the original edition.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484311462261,"sku":"9781597114585","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781597114585.jpg?v=1786266369"},{"product_id":"hold-still-1","title":"Hold Still","description":"Where does the impulse to create come from? What are the forces that shape an artist’s work? This ground-breaking memoir, a unique interplay of narrative and image, charts the making of one of America’s greatest artists. As Sally Mann tells her story, her work’s preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South is 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 experience. This is the record of an artist’s life, and a meditation on place, people, family, and the nature of creativity itself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510048989557,"sku":"9781837314867","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837314867.jpg?v=1787130324"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sally-mann.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}