Sally Mann is one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. This book is based on a Sally Mann exhibition that explores her photographs of family, landscapes, race relations and death/decay.
The book starts with John Glenday’s poem “Landscape with Flying Man”
I read about him that was given wings.
His father fixed those wings to carry him away.
They carried him halfway home, and then he fell.
And he fell not because he flew
but because he loved it so. You see
it’s neither pride, nor gravity but love
that pulls us back down to the world.
Love furnishes the wings, and that same love
will watch over us as we drown.
The soul makes a thousand crossings, the heart, just one.
In her introduction, Sally Mann says “Faulkner, Poe, Wordsworth, Pound – all those authors inform my photography and my photographs sing their words back to them.”
