Immediate Family (SIGNED)

Sally Mann

ISBN 10: 0893815187 / ISBN 13: 9780893815189

Published by Aperture, 1992

About this Item

Aperture, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First edition. Book and dust jacket condition: fine. First edition, first printing with full number line. Dust jacket condition: fine; outstanding condition; bright, clean,with price intact; minor and barely perceptible rubbing to spine ends of dust jacket. Hardcover book is bound in grey cloth. Book condition: cloth binding is in fine, excellent condition without rubbing, abrasions or soiling; spine is fine, corners are sharp; white endpapers are bright and clean; all text pages are clean and fine; photographic plates are very fine. Binding is tight. This beautiful book is in fine/very fine condition. Outstanding signed copy of the first edition, first printing. Signed on the title page in black ink by Sally Mann. Simple signature without inscription. Signed by Sally Mann in 2010 at the opening of her exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia. Included is a photo of Sally Mann signing the book. A beautiful signed copy of the first printing. Inquiries welcome. This book is available for sale to customers in the United States only. No orders outside the United States. No shipping outside the United States. Seller Inventory # wi755sm

Bibliographic Details

Title: Immediate Family (SIGNED)

Publisher: Aperture

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children--Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia--reveal truths that embody the individuality of her immediate family and ultimately take on a universal quality. Mann states that her work is "about everybody's memories, as well as their fears," a theme echoed by Reynolds Price in his eloquent, poignantly reflective essay accompanying the photographs in Immediate Family.

With sublime dignity, acute wit, and feral grace, Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy--the holding on, and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing, and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in Sally Mann's astonishing photographs.

A traveling exhibition of Immediate Family, organized by Aperture, opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in the fall of 1992.

Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children--Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia--reveal truths that embody the individuality of her immediate family and ultimately take on a universal quality. Mann states that her work is "about everybody's memories, as well as their fears," a theme echoed by Reynolds Price in his eloquent, poignantly reflective essay accompanying the photographs in Immediate Family.

With sublime dignity, acute wit, and feral grace, Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy--the holding on, and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing, and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in Sally Mann's astonishing photographs.

A traveling exhibition of Immediate Family, organized by Aperture, opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in the fall of 1992.

About the Author:

Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, with her husband and three children, whom she continues to photograph as part of an ongoing project. All of the photographs in Immediate Family were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera.

Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina, in 1933. His 1962 novel A Long and Happy Life received the William Faulker Award for a notable first novel, and has never been out of print. He has published numerous other books, including Kate Vaiden, for which he received the National Books Critics Circle Award. He has also published volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, a memoir, and he has written for the screen and for television. He is a member of the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.