“The fact is that these are not my children they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time….these are children in a photograph.” She draws a clear distinction between her children as her children and her children as photographs: And there’s a chunk of this book that seems to have been written as the final word in the years-long debate about the subjects she photographed: her children, partially or fully nude corpses in the Tennessee Body Farm her son, in the wake of a car accident.īut, like her photographs, her writing is often breathtakingly beautiful. “Hold Still” isn’t an easy read: It’s likely you’ll find yourself raising more questions than settling into comfortable answers when you’ve finished the book. Reading her memoir makes clear that she’s a fine writer, too. Lexington, Virginia, native Sally Mann is known as a photographer, largely of the South. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, by Sally Mann.
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