Book Review: Art Work' by Sally Mann
Demystifying the Life of an Artist, the Sally Mann Way Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir. “Night Blooming Cereus,” a 1988 photograph by Sally Mann. By Remy A. Santoro “We are all Sally Mann now,” one might think, gazing at the social-media streams that expose so many children. And yet none of us are Sally Mann. She is the art photographer both renowned and scolded for her “Family Pictures” series, which started in the mid-1980s, showing (sometimes naked) offspring of feral intensity and lasting for a decade as they grew. Her 2015 memoir, “Hold Still,” was more spellbinding than most by full-time writers. Credit...