![]() ![]() ![]() A goal of the memoir is thus to deconstruct these memories into their functional parts, explaining how each part contributed to the whole. She perceives her identity as an artist as born out of, yet entangled in, these memories. She compares these memories to “detritus,” not because they are useless garbage, but because they cannot be fully restored or recovered from the flow of time. At the beginning of her memoir, Mann explains that her memories are older than she is in other words, she inherited them from her forebears. As a result, the work demonstrates how memory transcends media, yet can be revived or gestured toward with any of the artist’s choosing. Hold Still merges Mann’s narrative meditation with her photographic artifacts. These included her children, innocence, mortality, race, and the unique textures of human experience in the American South. Mann probes her early intellectual and creative memories to articulate how she became a photographer, as well as how she developed her iconic themes and subjects. ![]() Most of the memoir was written between 20, as she prepared to give Harvard’s Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs is a 2015 memoir by American photographer Sally Mann. ![]()
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