Sally Mann: Immediate Family

New York, NY, USA: Aperture Foundation, 2014. Reissued. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The copyright page states, First Edition, reissued 2014 with a line below 20-12 for the hardcover edition. The book has no bumps or marks. The dust jacket is bright and has no tears, the Aperture band is present as well and has a one cm tear at spine fold. The dust jacket and band are in a Brodart cover now.

First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality. With sublime dignity, acute wit and feral grace, Sally Mann's pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child's simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy—the holding on and the breaking away. This is the stuff of which Greek dramas are made: impatience, terror, self-discovery, self-doubt, pain, vulnerability, role-playing and a sense of immortality, all of which converge in these astonishing photographs.
This reissue of Immediate Family has been printed using new scans and separations from Mann's original prints, which were taken with an 8 x 10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness and sumptuousness true to the original edition.