Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
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Sally Mann
Photographer
United States · b. 1951
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American photographer working in large-format black and white, best known for Immediate Family and for her landscapes of the American South.
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Reading. And, in particular, reading on the deck of the cabin while my children play in the river below.
Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
The loss of a child.
On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
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