Customer Reviews

Still Time

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I bought both "Still Time" and "Immediate Family" sight unseen after seeing her new book "What Remains". "Still Time" is a compilation of works from various periods. It is easy to see her promise, and there are some nice photographs. Her progress is interesting. But she really hits her stride when she photographs her children in "Immediate Family". Some of the early shots in "Still Time" seem sort of concocted and overdone-until the photos from "Immediate Family" which are breathtaking. Save your money and buy "Immediate Family".

a rehash of photos from other sources. interesting, but the buyer should have been made aware so as not to duplicate previous orders.

Sally Mann was so shockingly good in her book of photographys of her children called "Immediate Family" that I was sure none could be as good. And this book is not as good but it's still five stars.Just the cover of a night blooming cirus draped across her daughter is enough.........like the flower yet to be and the book is fully of much more. In her first books prologue there is the story of the very unconventional growing up that Sally Mann had......her father was a wildly creative man who had his children experience the unusal to say the least........but the most unusal is they apparently experienced the beauty of youth and family and life. Today some would stone her.....we know who they are ......so sad for them.

I gave my 6 year old niece a camera for her birthday. It's just a simple point and shoot. Then I purchased "Still Time" I couldn't believe the resemblence. Although, I would recommend any of my nieces photo's over any in the collection by Sally Mann. Not because it's from a 6 year old and not because she's my niece but because they are better.
I have 3 other collections by Sally Mann and I continue to be facinated with her talent. I couldn't be more disspointed in wasting my money on a collection such as this.
I wonder: Did Sally Mann really take these photo's or does she have a 6 year old niece with a camera?
Don't waste your money. Buy any of her other collections.

I am an English/photography teacher at a high school in southside Virginia. I had always been a fan of Sally's work and used this book as a teaching tool in my classroom. The way Mann has captured the human form and the "inner workings" of something as private as her family is breath taking in the flawless medium of black and white photography. I had an opportunity to meet her and after explaining to her how her book was used to inspire my students, she happily signed my copy of the book (my students went wild when when they saw her signature)!