Mann''s subjects are her small children a boy, a
girl and a new baby, often shot when they''re sick or hurt or just
naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes,
vomiting--the usual trials of childhood--can be alarmingly
beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann''s portrait album.
Her ambivalence about motherhood--her delight and despair--pushes
Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than
most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is
astonishing.
關於作者:
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 Faulkner
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.