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I found this memoir fascinating. Set against the backdrop of her family story, Sally Mann reflects on how she assigns meaning to both her photographs and her life.

“Photography would seem to preserve our past and make it invulnerable to the distortions of repeated memorial superimpositions, but I think that is a fallacy: photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.“

Picture is a favorite from the book

If I had to pick one word to describe this book it would be: haunting. I started Hold Still back in 2018, made it halfway, and returned it to the library when I ran out of time. I‘ve thought about it ever since and finally finished it today. I love Mann‘s photography and my dad was a Southern artist, so I couldn‘t help but think of him throughout. My strong ties to VA had me feeling nostalgic reading her reflections. So many feels about this one!

Weekend plans! I‘m making very good progress on the Trekkie pattern for my sister in law. My latest #audiostitching listen is All Creatures Great and Small. Trying to finish Hold Still finally- recently picked it up again after putting it down in 2018 🤦🏻‍♀️. Something about it makes it hard for me to read even though I‘m loving it. I think it‘s the nostalgia I have for my time living in Virginia in my 20s

In Hold Still, photographer Sally Mann shares a bit of her own story alongside that of her family/ancestors. She includes photos, some of which are fairly confrontational. She has a wonderful voice and good sense of humor. I really enjoyed this!

A memoir with photographs. I loved this look at Sally Mann‘s process, the stories behind some of her iconic photos, and the unconventional upbringing that led her to the artistic lifestyle.

I love when writers share about their journals!

This was recommended to me and I‘m glad it was. Quite enjoyable as I pack boxes. #NFNovember

Visited #tatteredcover Colfax for #smallbusinesssaturday . I‘m finally going to read Dune, and I picked up that Sally Mann memoir hardcover for $10. Support your local bookstore ❤️❤️❤️

1. Ghostwriter on PBS, So Weird on Disney...I always liked the paranormal stuff!
2. Hold Still by Sally Mann
3. Shrimp
4. Hopefully some more snow days for curling up under a blanket and reading 😆
5. Will do! #friyayintro @jesshowbooks

What I‘ll be reading first in the new year! Trying to read down my #tbr list. #libraryhaul #reading #bookhaul #librarybooks #nowreading #bookstack

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#artandillustration #riotgram

This was an easy one for me since I have a whole shelf dedicated to art books. The bottom one (Bosco) is a book I received from my former boss (a painter) when I left for greener pastures.

I love photography and art theory.
I'm a big geek!!! 😁

As a fellow photographer, I was very interested in reading this book. But her most recent work in the "body garden" I found very disturbing. Kind of felt unclean after reading it.

I wish more classic photographers wrote books like this!

I was looking for my copy of Arnold Lobel's Mother Goose to give my nephew for his 1st birthday and I FOUND THIS and didn't know I had it! FUN TIME! No Lobel though.

A little vacation reading. An engaging (so far anyway--it's long!) reflection on life and work.

We don't talk much about what happens when we die. Years ago, sex was the unmentionable thing; now it's death.

Memoir with lots and lots of images, so audiobook (read by the author) comes with a pdf. Unfortunately, pdf is not compatible with my iPod, so I got a print copy from the library. Very enjoyable.

This postmortem readjustment is one that many of us have had to make when our parents die. The parental door against which we have spent a lifetime pushing finally gives way and we lurch forward, unprepared and disbelieving, into the rest of our lives.

Along with the purchase of the Encyclopedia Britannica, his parents had also bought, as library ornaments, the 54 Great Books of the Western World. They never suspected the subversive potential behind all that gleaming leather and gold.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

TBR Tuesday with a very ambitious @24in48 stack! The Fever and The Girls are top of the stack even though they're near the bottom. And I need to get to the Fireman - all for the @Litsybookclub and the @WhoPickedThisBook club! Titles subject to change if I go on another poetry kick!

"Writing is so exhausting. I'd be drenched with sweat at the end of a paragraph." - Sally Mann, whose HOLD STILL was a Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, in conversation with Lorin Stein at our Eat, Drink & Be Literary series at BAM.

Do images speak to you? This family history by the renowned photographer, Sally Mann, tells a fascinating story while describing how she got caught up in the overwrought politics of Art in the U. S. Wonderfully good!

Immediate plans - finish coffee, start book.

I loved this book, and not just because I used to live in the Virginia town where Mann has lived nearly her entire life. Her memoir is as meaty and complex as any Southern gothic novel.