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By Sally Mann

A revealing and fantastically written memoir and family members background from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

In this groundbreaking booklet, a distinct interaction of narrative and snapshot, Mann's preoccupation with family members, race, mortality, and the storied panorama of the yank South are printed as virtually genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by way of the relations historical past that precedes her.

Sorting via bins of relations papers and yellowed pictures she reveals greater than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, household abuse, automobile crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly enjoyed and disputed kinfolk land . . . racial problems, huge sums of cash made and misplaced, the go back of the prodigal son, and even perhaps bloody murder."

In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing pictures, she crafts a unconditionally unique type of own historical past that has the page-turning drama of an exceptional novel yet is firmly rooted within the fertile soil of her personal existence.

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