{"product_id":"sally-mann-at-twelve-portraits-of-young-women-9781597114585","title":"Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst published by Aperture in 1988, \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve: Portraits of Young Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking classic by one of photography's most renowned artists. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e is Sally Mann's illuminating, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls, taken in the artist's native Rockbridge County, Virginia. The age of twelve brings tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction maintained from the 1988 original publication, \"These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue.\" The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. The young women in Mann's unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity. The poet Jonathan Williams writes, \"Sally Mann's girls are the ones who do the hard looking in \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e--be up to it!\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis reissue of \u003ci\u003eAt Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann's prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness true to the original edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMann, Sally:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSally Mann\u003c\/b\u003e has remained close to her roots, photographing in the American South since the 1970s. She is renowned for her resonant landscape work, trenchant studies of mortality, and intimate portraits of her children and husband. A Guggenheim fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named America's Best Photographer by Time magazine in 2001. She has been the subject of two documentaries: \u003ci\u003eBlood Ties\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and in 2011, she presented at Harvard the William E. Massey Sr. Lecture in American Studies, which planted the seeds for \u003ci\u003eHold Still: A Memoir with Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). Mann's work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Mann's other Aperture books are \u003ci\u003eImmediate Family\u003c\/i\u003e (1992, reissued 2014), \u003ci\u003eStill Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eProud Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e (copublished with Gagosian Gallery, 2009), and \u003ci\u003eThe Flesh and The Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2010).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeattie, Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAnn Beattie\u003c\/b\u003e has been included in four O. Henry Prize collections. She has received the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Rea Award for the Short Story, and she was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892962136338,"sku":"9781597114585","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e64e4db-d8dd-4188-9d80-880d5c2c9d89.jpg?v=1738214435","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sally-mann-at-twelve-portraits-of-young-women-9781597114585","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}