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Photo-Text Topographics: Memory and Place in Sally Mann's Hold Still
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2020
Abstract
This article explores Sally Mann's memoir Hold Still (2015) as a complex photo-text that excavates, mediates and shapes memories, both of her family and of the US South more broadly. Theorizing photo-text topographics, the article argues that various landscapes (regional, memorative, aesthetic) are mediated by the interrelation between word and image. Mann's depictions of her children, southern location, and – most explicitly – black–white relations in the United States will be shown to reveal how the past can never be “held still.”
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- Journal of American Studies , Volume 54 , Special Issue 3: US Topographics: Imaging National Landscapes , July 2020 , pp. 564 - 581
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2020
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