Sally Mann has been making pictures on the same Virginia farm for fifty years, and this is the book about how the work actually gets made. Not theory. The nuts and bolts of a life spent at it. She’s funny about her own failures, which is most of the appeal — the early success that nearly wrecked her, the years of rejection, the pictures that didn’t work and why, the luck she can’t take credit for, and the plain grind of showing up in the darkroom again. She hauls out old journal entries and letters and lets you see her at her worst. Advice runs through it, some of it practical, some of it she admits is useless to anybody but her. It came out in 2025, after <em<Hold Still, and it’s aimed at anybody making anything, not just photographers.
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