Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women or losing ourselves

or losing ourselves

the waterfront unimpeded by skyscrapers

is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence

She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom

Sally Mann: At Twelve, Portraits of Young Women or losing ourselvesFirst 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