I really appreciated Sally Mann’s book as a photographer and mother to two girls. It was fascinating to see excerpts from her letters to Ted Orland and what was going on in her life and mind - what a special friendship. I also enjoyed seeing and hearing more about how particular photographs came about- Sally’s thought process and decisions when it came to image selection. That’s helpful and interesting to me as a photographer. I haven’t yet read Hold Still but look forward to reading that next.

I had already read Hold Still by Sally Mann and was delighted to read more by her. She is such a singular character. She brings her life and practice to life in the most fascinating way. Her thoughts on art are sometimes provocative, often profound and always interesting. Her choice of subject matter, her obsession with old photographic techniques, her refusal to be anything but true to her artistic process. It's all here and it's all brilliantly explored. I ate this up.

I’m a. Big fan of Sally Mann’s work having read two of her previous books, I find some of the stories less interesting than others, I would have like to see more about her process from a technical standpoint and she does say at the beginning dont believe everything that she writes in the book which I felt defeated the object to some point.
The images are superb if a little shocking at times and I would have liked to see more and luckily reading a digital version of the book I was able to zoom in to see the images in more detail this is something someone reading the printed version won’t be able to do.
Ian J Cole (Sinners Review)

The typewritten notes and the excerpts from Mann’s letters were inspiring.
Personally, I did not appreciate some of the selected photographs.
Overall, a good read - Mann is very elaborate and quirky and an interesting artist,
I am looking forward to reading her other work.

Not quite as insightful as it aims to be. Perhaps having read Mann’s previous book would have helped to better understand this one, but it seemed a little haphazard overall.