At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

"At Twelve" is a composite portrait that is both universal and intimately personal. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose--what adults make of that pose may be the issue." Sally Manns work is in the collections of major museums across the country. "Haunting black-and-white studies of children shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets." --Karen Lipson "Newsday"