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Sally Mann: Immediate Family Paperback – Import, May 2, 2001

by Mann Sally (Author)
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This is a book of remarkable images - intense and intimate - recording the photographer's children as they explore their woodland home in Virginia. The striking photographs show the ambiguities and dramas of family life, hauntingly evoking the mysteries of childhood. All of the photographs in Immediate Family were taken with an 8" x 10" view camera.As Sally Mann herself says in the 'These are photographs of my children … many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river.'The result is a book that is ethereal, tender and sometimes eerily a distinctly human work - at once personal and universal - that is magnetically seductive.
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  1. Print length
    78 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    PHAIDON PRESS
  4. Publication date
    May 2, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    11.22 x 0.39 x 9.06 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0714830542
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0714830544
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PHAIDON PRESS; New Ed edition (May 2, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 78 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714830542
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714830544
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.22 x 0.39 x 9.06 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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D. Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars striking
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2013
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These images are striking and unforgettable. Case in point -- I originally saw one of the images ('Jessie bites') at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Over a year later I stumbled across this book in their gift store and, flipping through the pages, rediscovered that image. I had not remembered the photographers' name, but the image itself had stayed in my mind. I don't have a ton of money to spend on art books, and I have even less room for them, but I decided then that this had to be a part of my collection.

For those people who say these images are one step up from child porn... I guess it's where your mind goes. I did not get that at all. What I got was a sense of being able to be comfortable in ones' skin, and a regret at the loss of the innocence of childhood.
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Filippo
5.0 out of 5 stars Punto di riferimento nel genere
Reviewed in Italy on June 9, 2014
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Opera considerata punto di riferimento nel genere, sono stati in molti ad aver immortalato la vita famigliare, ma il lavoro
di Sally Mann è unico nel suo genere, riflette una vena malinconica che si delinea come sentimento dell'autrice attraverso gli "attori", suoi figli, io reputo la vera protagonista l'autrice . Personalmente lo definisco un lavoro: crudo, immediato, malinconico. Lo consiglio sicuramente.
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Muriel C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Preciosa collección de fotografías muy personales
Reviewed in Spain on March 18, 2014
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Sally Mann muestra en este libro una preciosa collección de fotografías de sus hijos - en ocasiones parecen posadas, en ocasiones espontáneas, pero todas ellas tienen algo especial. Sabe jugar con la luz, las expresiones, el ambiente... me ha encantado.

El libro no es enorme pero de buen tamaño para poder apreciar bien las fotografías, y el tipo de papel e impresión me han parecido buenos.

Recomendable para todo amante de la fotografía analógica de medio / gran formato - y para todos los aficionados de la fotografía en general.
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marmitelover
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2014
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This work caused a stir when it was first published, but i am a huge fan of Mann's work and this series is my favourite. The book itself is very simple its paper back and a reasonable intro but the photographs do the talking. If you are not sure about this work or have not seen it its worth the buy weather you end up loving or hating it. It will will be very thought provoking.
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surferfree
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely arresting images
Reviewed in Germany on February 18, 2013
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Sally Mann's Immediate Family is a textbook on how to shoot natural portraits in environment. Not sure if it was the constant snapping which made her subjects so camera neutral or if she rewarded them somehow for good behaviour during shoots, but there is an amazing frankness in the subjects to go with the technical excellence of the images.

Really surprised though about the controversy surrounding this book.
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Nathan Adler
4.0 out of 5 stars Bello
Reviewed in Italy on September 6, 2014
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Con Faucon e Salgado, uno dei miei autori preferiti. Anche se ho l'impressione che non sia un'edizione completa, bo'. Da avere per tutti gli appassionati di fotografia
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