Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs

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Intimate memoir exploring lineage through photos.

"Hold Still" could be a treasure for you if you're drawn to hauntingly personal narratives that are deftly intertwined with visual storytelling. Sally Mann's ability to weave her compelling family saga with evocative photography creates a memoir that reads like fiction yet is deeply rooted in the complexities of her Southern heritage. It's an impactful journey through her ancestral legacy, perfect for readers who appreciate the poignant intersection of text and image.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs

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ISBN: 9780316247764
Authors: Sally Mann
Date of Publication: 2015-05-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Art
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 7720 readers)

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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.
 

Intimate memoir exploring lineage through photos.

"Hold Still" could be a treasure for you if you're drawn to hauntingly personal narratives that are deftly intertwined with visual storytelling. Sally Mann's ability to weave her compelling family saga with evocative photography creates a memoir that reads like fiction yet is deeply rooted in the complexities of her Southern heritage. It's an impactful journey through her ancestral legacy, perfect for readers who appreciate the poignant intersection of text and image.

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.