Art Work: On the Creative Life

"Art Work is less a survey than a conversation: part memoir, part workshop, part exhortation to anyone who wants to make something honest. Photographer Sally Mann has always been frank and fearless. The tone is occasionally outrageous, and upends the abiding myth of the artist’s life, that it is some sort of effortless epiphany. Art is work. It is risk and doubt with the occasional flash of inspiration. This generous and provocative guide to the creative life blends photographs, journal-entries, letters and reflections on creative success and its essential counterpart, failure."