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| What Remains | 
| Author: Sally Mann
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 36026
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 132
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 12.7 x 11.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0821228439
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780821228432
ASIN: 0821228439
Publication Date: September 23, 2003
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Product Description
Internationally acclaimed artist, Sally Mann, named 'America's Best' photographer in 2001 by Time- magazine, offers this deeply felt meditation on morality. Renowned for her candid portrayal of family life (Immediate Family), her revealing study of girlhood (At Twelve), and landscapes from the American South (Mother Land and Deep South), internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann has produced a powerful new body of work on the one subject that affects us all. In WHAT REMAINS, a five-part meditation on mortality, Mann focuses her lens on the ineffable divide between body and soul, the means by which life takes leave of this earth, and the manner in which it rejoins it. Mann's new photographs are by turns shocking and sublime. An armed fugitive is hunted down by police. She photographs the scars left on her property after the incident. A series of brooding, otherworldly landscapes made at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam is followed by a group of close-up portraits of Mann's own children, floating in the inky black atmosphere of the nineteenth-century ambrotype; another series taken at a forensics study site offers an unflinching look at the process of decomposition, as do images of a beloved pet greyhound-long since departed. Made with the collodion process, using glass plates, the resulting images are at once painterly, sculptural, and photographic.
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 Very pleased August 23, 2007
I was very happy to recieve my purchase. It was in great condition and arrived alot sooner than expected. I certainly plan to make future purchases on Amazon.
 NECRO-ART March 8, 2007
I was a bit disappointed as I didn't realize it was just pictures of "Extremely Dead People" photos. I really did not read any of the other reviews so I was a bit shocked when I opened the book. I would not purchase this book again. I thought it was something concerning life, not past life. If you are a person interested in NECRO-ART it would be of interest.
 soso January 20, 2005
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
Being a photographer myself it is a must to study Sally Mann's work. No doubt, here reputation is not coincident and definitely not only because she took a couple of photos of children without cloth. Her photos tell stories and portrait those children in a very strong and real way.
I was very impressed with her work and it still inspires me today.
I was very happy when this book arrived at my door and couldn't wait to open it. The photos of the decaying bodies is clearly not every's taste, but captured on in an extremely impressive and strong way. She treated her negatives is a way that matches the rotten look of the bodies. She carefully chose a style that gives you just enough distance to still feel comfortable but at the same time getting close enough to recognize what we see.
I had to look through these photos a couple of times to adjust myself to it and become open to what I saw. Looking at human being this way is something we have damned from our everyday life. It is not something I would put on my wall, but it is an experience I don't want to miss either.
The big disappointment comes after those photos. The other 2/3 of the book shows photos that are hardly worth the paper they are printed on. I consider myself open to a wide range of artisitc expression but not the lack of it. What we see on the following pages is like the title suggests the remains of Sally Mann's drawers where she probably found decade old films that she forgot to process. As much as I tried to like it and find something "talking" to me I simply ended up flipping through the pages more and more quickly hoping to get to the next chapter. But it never came.
No I don't think it is a waste of money, and yes I still like Sally Mann's work. I just don't have to like this book (except for the first part).
If you like her previous work, her style and extremely impressive and artistic portraits you might be very disappointed with this book as it is not remotely similar to what you might expect.
Ethereal Meditations on Mortality January 4, 2005
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
WHAT REMAINS is an apt title to this extraordinary photographic portfolio by the sensitive, ever inquisitive, gentle spirit of Sally Mann. Though often criticized for her 'audacity' of material she elects to photograph, Mann is never less than creative and challenging.
This well designed book is divided into sections that explore life and especially death in its many guises - accidental, violent, natural - and the remains of the deed, matter with which we the living must deal. There is the death of a family greyhound shown with grief and simplicity, the violent death of a criminal killed on Mann's property and the gore of that event and aftermath, a series of views of dead bodies in a morgue, and dark landscape survey of Antietam (a battlefield fro the Civil War) that is haunting and all too reminiscent of ongoing battlefields we still create, and finally some views of her own children's faces.
The camera techniques include ambrotypes and modes of developing that are both difficult and rewarding. One is left with the impact of the fine line between life and death and that vacuum that exists when one becomes the other. Some may find this particular portfolio difficult to see, but perhaps those people will gain the most from Sally Mann's meditations on life and death. Grady Harp, January 2004
it was the kids January 11, 2004
0 out of 105 found this review helpful
i always wondered if mann was a truly gifted artist or if her subjects and locations were just so compelling that anyone could have captured incredible images if they happened to be present.this book confirms the latter. these photographs are flat, uninteresting, not compelling for me in any way. Maybe she needs to find some new prepubescent girls and go back to the child-erotica. The controversial nature of her images were what vaulted her to fame. it surely was not talent.
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