Hold Still by Sally Mann

Author:Sally Mann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2015-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

The problem was, I was in deep trespassing shit. I had been driving way out in the country, miles from any paved road, when I had seen these siren-song columns, the home they once supported long burned to the ground, surrounded by live oaks trailing Spanish moss. Irresistible. The hitch was that they were behind a fence hung every several feet with No Trespassing signs, and they purported to mean business: “Trespassers will be Shot,” “Violators will be shot, survivors will be shot again.” That kind of thing.

Like Odysseus untied, tantalized by the vision of these columns, I pushed the Suburban through a gap I found in the barbed wire, sailed right in, and set to work. When I heard the pissed-off sound of that truck approaching I knew I had more problems than a run-over dog. Under the dark cloth I prepared my most ingratiating grin.

The engine cut off, and everything was silent save the ticking of cooling metal. After a few uneasy moments the door opened, and I heard footsteps approaching. In the pause that followed I imagined a gun barrel being raised by a Bull Connor–ish man to that part of the dark cloth where my back, given the evidence of the legs below, would be.

“Awful nice day for taking a picture,” the gentlest of southern voices spoke to the dark cloth. Inside it, I couldn’t believe my ears.

Or my eyes, when I emerged and saw him. He didn’t look mean or angry at all; in fact, he had the benign, lazy look of somebody who’d gotten into a sizeable mess of nookie the night before. Hiking himself up on his tailgate while I shot this picture, his eyes now intent beneath the tufted beam of his brow, he tore out page after page from a spiral-bound notebook on which he had drawn maps of other easily trespassable places.

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