![]() ![]() Mann also scrutinizes her relationship with Gee-Gee, the African American woman who ran their household for 50 years. Here, too, are staggering family secrets, including her in-laws’ deceptive lives and violent deaths, her Mayflower-blue-blood mother’s scandalously unconventional childhood, and her self-sacrificing country-doctor father’s complicated legacy of slave ownership, wealth, and philanthropy. She also shares, for the first time, the dark side of her notoriety, as well as the daring adventures behind more recent photographic series. Mann confesses her aversion to wearing clothes as a “near-feral child,” and her lifelong love for the land on which she and her husband have lived for more than 40 years. Writing was Mann’s first creative calling, and her prose has the same firepower as the many photographs that illustrate this searching, witty, and gothic inquiry into family, place, and art. In spite of the controversy, Mann has never compromised her intrepid visual curiosity or forensic lyricism, and now, in this zestful, lushly textured, candid, and jolting family memoir, she reveals the deep wellsprings of her most poetic and disconcerting images. ![]() Photographer Mann’s book, Immediate Family (1992), aroused immediate outrage over its nude photographs of her three beloved children at their secluded Virginia farm. ![]()
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