These personal reflections shed light on the unique collaborative process by which Sturges's remarkable photographs are made. Elizabeth Beverly's introductory essay, drawn in part from conversations with Sturges's subjects, adds a new dimension to the photographs. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are gloriously natural and wonderfully compelling. Radiant Identities is the second volume in Sturges's ongoing work. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy.

These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit. 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. Mann’s other Aperture books are Immediate Family (1992, reissued 2014), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (copublished with Gagosian Gallery, 2009), and The Flesh and The Spirit (copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2010).Īnn Beattie has been included in four O. 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. Lecture in American Studies, which planted the seeds for Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015). She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994) and What Remains (2007), and in 2011, she presented at Harvard the William E. 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 is renowned for her resonant landscape work, trenchant studies of mortality, and intimate portraits of her children and husband. Sally Mann has remained close to her roots, photographing in the American South since the 1970s. This reissue of At Twelve 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 and sumptuousness true to the original edition. Poet Jonathan Williams writes, “Sally Mann’s girls are the ones who do the hard looking in At Twelve-be up to it!” They return the viewer’s gaze with a disturbing equanimity. The young women in Mann’s unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. 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.” The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy.

To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. Aperture is reoriginating it in a masterful facsimile edition that retains the purity of the original.Īt Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. First published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a groundbreaking classic by one of photography’s most renowned artists.

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