At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0893813303 ISBN 13: 9780893813307

Publisher: Aperture, 2005

Synopsis

"At Twelve" is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. 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." Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets."
--Karen Lipson, "Newsday"

About this title

About the Author:

Sally Mann is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Mann's many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh And The Spirit (2010). She lives in Lexington, Virginia.

Review:

"Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets."--Karen Lipson, "Newsday"
"Sally Mann's photography is a clear pane...not intrusion, but revelation. These young women distill something for the eye...something beautiful and sad and moving, something purely female."--Diane Sawyer
"Sally Mann is the real thing. Just look at these photographs!" At Twelve" is an American classic."--Annie Dillard

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0893813303
• ISBN 13: 9780893813307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56