''Still Time'' is a 1994

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book by

Sally Mann Sally Mann HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Early life and e ...

. The book is published by

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and was released alongside Mann's exhibition for the photographs. The book consists of 60 four-color and

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images of landscapes as well as abstract photography and images of Mann's children, some of which have been collected from her previous book, ''

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''. The cover image is a photograph of Mann's 7 year old daughter Jessie, who is pictured topless with her breasts covered by

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. The book opens with a quote from

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's ''Childhood House'', and images focus on the theme of the passing of time. The book is not to be confused with the 1988 catalogue of the same name, also by Sally Mann.

Legal case

In 2010 a man was convicted of level 1 child pornography for owning four books, including ''Still Time'' as well as ''

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'' by David Hamilton, which he purchased from a bookstore in

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, London. His conviction was overturned on appeal in 2011, with the judge calling his conviction "very unfair" and criticising the

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(CPS) for prosecuting him. The judge noted that ''Still Time'' was available from various bookshops and had also been on sale at an art gallery, but the CPS took no action against the gallery or the bookstores.

References

External links

Official profile at the publishers website
{{Sally Mann 1994 non-fiction books Books by Sally Mann Books of nude photography