Mann's photographs reflect the lives and desires of 12-year-old girls with disturbing equanimity, resulting in a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. 37 black-and-white photos.
A collection of pictures which record the photographer's children as they explore their woodland home in Virginia. They show the ambiguity and dramas of family life - some are posed and some are real - and the images range from the fantastic to the everyday.
Compiled to accompany her traveling exhibition of the same name, this collection by one of the strongest forces in contemporary photography revels, finesses, and sometimes even transforms our sense of time and place into something magical and sensual through her acute perception of our preconceptions. 60 color and duotone photographs.
"Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation" (Mark Rudman). The three long poems in "Eye Against Eye" convey the wrought particulars of intimate human relations, perceptions of the landscape, and the historical moment, tense with political exigencies. Mayan ruins invoke the collapsing Twin Towers, love between parents and ...
Icons of surrealism such as the Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips sofa would not exist if it weren't for Edward James. Born into fabulous wealth his father was a scion of the Phelps-Dodge dynasty, his mother a beautiful socialite said to be the daughter of King Edward VII James amassed one of the finest collections of surrealist art and was the ...
Children, landscape, lovers--these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann's take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann's work consistently challenges the viewer: in her ...
In many households, dinner time is more like a battlefield than a time of family bonding. The struggle to get your child to eat properly can be harrowing, and eventually you probably give in. This guide provides tips and advice to ensure your child gets the nutrition they need, without the fuss. It covers all eating issues parents may have with ...
Praise for Yearning! "Sally Cisney Mann tells a powerful, moving, and unforgettable story of tragedy and hope, loss and love, suffering and triumph. Hers is a life shaped by sweeping events - economic and social dislocation from the Great Depression, World War II, and the war in Southeast Asia. All students of 'war and the family' should read ...
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