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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann

Family history in words and photographs

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    National Book Award finalist

    National Book Award finalist

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Family history in words and photographs

Sally Mann builds this memoir from two kinds of evidence: family papers and photographs, and her own account of the past they preserve. The book moves between personal history and broader subjects including family, race, mortality, and the landscape of the American South. As Mann sorts through records and images, the family archive brings forward stories of disputed land, money, abuse, and scandal. The combination makes the structure itself part of the subject: private memories sit alongside the traces earlier generations left behind.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs shaped by family history and archival research
  • Readers interested in photography as part of a book’s storytelling
  • Readers exploring race, mortality, and the history of the American South

Themes

Family historyPhotography and memoryRaceMortalityThe American South

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Book overview

This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

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.

Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."

In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
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