Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative Life

This book by photographer and writer Sally Mann explores the challenges and pleasures of the creative process. Illustrated throughout with thoughtfully juxtaposed photographs, letters, and journal entries, Art Work is written in the same lively and courageous tone as Mann’s acclaimed Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (2015). Its candid mix of illuminating stories, practical advice, and life lessons form what Mann describes as “kind of a how-to book, or a how-I-did-it book—a don’t-try-this-at-home book,” reaffirming the author as a unique contemporary voice and offering insights into her own experience of making art.