![]() ![]() ![]() The full title of Ms Mann’s book reads: ‘Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs’, which differentiates it from the Duchess of Cambridge’s book.Īlthough she is an aspiring photographer, the images in Kate’s book were also not taken by her but submitted by members of the public up and down the country.ĭespite the comparisons to Ms Mann’s book, the text has received a staggering response online - many Amazon reviewers give it five stars, and dub it an “absolutely beautiful book”. Her images are also accompanied by lyrical prose, while the photographs show a range of tragedies from “the return of the prodigal son” to “clandestine affairs”. 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. ![]() ![]() National Book Award Finalist-A revealing and. Ms Mann's photo memoir recounts her own personal family history, and many of the images were discovered after she sorted “through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs”. A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. Ms Mann’s text was a National Book Award Finalist, and voted one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly and Bookpage back in 2015. ![]()
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