Overview
At Twelve is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, 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. Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets."--Karen Lipson,Newsday
Photographs that are both windows and mirrors: poem-like reflections on these young women's lives and self-portraits of memory and desire.
Synopsis
At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women. Photographs by Sally Mann. Introduction by Ann Beattie. At Twelve offers a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a posewhat adults make of that pose may be the issue." Sally Mann's work is in the collections of major museums across the country. 37 blackandwhite duotone photographs, 9 3/8 X 10 7/8, 56 pages. paperback and hardback available;
"Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets."
Karen Lipson, Newsday
"Sally Mann's photography is a clear pane...not intrusion, but revelation. These young women distill something for the eye...something beautiful and sad and moving, something purely female."
Diane Sawyer