The genesis of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs lies in an unexpected invitation received by the American photographer Sally Mann to deliver the distinguished Massey Lectures at Harvard University.
As she seeks to understand the forces that have shaped her life and career as one of America's pre-eminent photographers, Mann interweaves her family's dark secrets with her own biography.
Mann's rapturous discovery of photography in 1969 set her on a trajectory from which she never looked back, finding the artistic passions that consumed her life.
Despite her significant acclaim from the series Immediate Family in the early 1990s, Mann describes the experience as 'spun me near senseless' due to the intimate nature of the portraits.
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