CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/12/2015

Sally Mann: Immediate Family

In Aperture's new reissue of Sally Mann's quintessential collection of family photographs, Reynolds Price concludes his essay, "these loving, fearful, trustworthy and profound pictures explore the nature of family love, maternal love and child response; and they do so from new yet ancient grounds. Their steady witness and abundant findings may well last us a long while to come. They could lead more people than Mann's own family to a vital and often long-postponed encounter with the primal news of home and departure, the flight itself we all must make—encounters that may well be productive of healing and mercy in ways that few but the greatest pictures manage. I can wish that my own, and many more lives, had been watched and honored from the absolute start by fearless, honest and fervently tender eyes like those, on guard and patiently standing watch, in all these pages." Sorry Game (1989) is reproduced from Sally Mann: Immediate Family.