It's southern to the bone, hell on wheels. Written in her pitch perfect prose style, it is a textbook of illumination and desire for anyone who hears the siren call of art beckoning to them. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself."- Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of The Place You Love is Gone, "Photographer Sally Mann's book Hold Still is one of the great portraits of the American South. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. In doing so, she manifests in prose the acuity of seeing that has propelled her to the top rank of contemporary artists."- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon, "There has never been a book like this. With prodigious intellect and a telling instinct for the exact detail that will reveal character or throw it into question, Mann delves into the treacherous territory of memory, mesmerized by the relentless dance of beauty and decay. In Hold Still, she wraps her prose around her pictures, revealing a fine talent for writing and a rich family history."- John Grisham, author of The Firm and Sycamore Row, "One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could provide the grist for a dozen novels.
A triumph."- Jamie Lee Curtis, actress, "For three decades Sally Mann has captured images that are unique, haunting, beautiful, disturbing, stark - it would take a mid-sized thesaurus to hold all the adjectives that have been used to describe both the art and the artist. A Southern work, it is also universally accessible, as all of Sally Mann's work is, for she reaches deep into her ancestral headwaters and the twisted rivers of human remembrance. It is a literary family album enlivened by many of the images in the stories told. "This spectacular modern memoir reads like a sweeping gothic novel, filled with mystery, violence, controversy, and, of course, love in all its forms.
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