Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings - Rilegato

Greenough, Sarah; Kennel, Sarah

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ISBN 10: 1419729039 ISBN 13: 9781419729034

Casa editrice: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2018

Riassunto

Short-listed for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of work—portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies—is that it is all “bred of a place,” the American South. Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, uses her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage to ask powerful, provocative questions—about history, identity, race, and religion—that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Organized into five sections—Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains—and including many works not previously exhibited or published, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a sweeping overview of Mann’s artistic achievements.

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Recensione

"all her [Sally Mann's] strengths are on view in a deftly chosen and admirably displayed exhibition in Washington covering most of her 40-plus-year career: Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, at the National Gallery of Art. There, 108 images 47 of them never before exhibited and an excellent catalog provide a provocative tour through the photographer's accomplishments. It is also a record of exploration into the past, into the country s history and photography's, stamped with a powerful vision." --NY Times

"Photographer Sally Mann has been taking haunting images of the American South for more than four decades. This 320-page volume collects the sweep of her work through portraits, still lifes, and landscapes." --New York Magazine online

"Virginia-born Sally Mann has not strayed from her home turf and, over a 40-plus-year professional life, her photographic signature has remained constant: a southern gothic sensibility imbued with a heavy tincture of romanticism. A Thousand Crossings showcases her achievement and includes work never seen in print before." The Irish Times

"A Thousand Crossings and its catalog represent a large portion of Mann's multifaceted oeuvre. It is by turns tender, light-hearted, sun-dappled, epic, allusive, burdened, scarred, mournful, dark, mindful, exploratory, expiatory, commemorative, introspective, conciliatory, and wise." --New York Review of Books

L'autore

Sally Mann is a celebrated American artist and the author of several critically acclaimed books of photography, as well as the memoir Hold Still, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She still lives in Lexington.
 
Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel are curators at the National Gallery of Art and the Peabody Essex Museum, respectively, and cocurators of the Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings exhibition.
 

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• Editore: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1419729039
• ISBN 13: 9781419729034
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 331