![]() ![]() (This might seem like a dumb point, but there’s a big difference between a book in which the text plows along and keeps going and then on the opposite page there’s a photograph and a caption, or worse, there’s a couple batches of slick pages placed here and there throughout with images and plate numbers.) Breaking up the text in a book with images not only recalls the blogging style we’ve all become used to, it also forces the reader to actually stop and look at (or at least go out of their way to ignore) the image, and it allows the author to unveil the photograph when she wants to. Even better, they’re tightly woven into her narrative in a way that sort of brings to mind Bob Mankoff’s memoir, which also perfectly integrated images into the text. Sally Mann is not one of those artists, thankfully, and she includes tons of images in her memoir. One thing I find annoying about books by visual artists is that they often read as if the artist declared, “I’m writing a BOOK now and I have to be SERIOUS and I shan’t use PICTURES because pictures don’t belong in a SERIOUS BOOK!” ![]() ![]() Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs ![]()
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