Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women Both authoritative and trenchant

Both authoritative and trenchant

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Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women Both authoritative and trenchantFirst published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a groundbreaking classic by one of photography's most renowned artists. At Twelve is Sally Mann's illuminating, collective portrait of twelve year old girls, taken in the artist's native Rockbridge County, Virginia. The age of twelve brings tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference