So the Story Goes

From early amateur snapshots to todays advanced digital images, photography has been the perfect means to record peoples lives. This provocative book explores the complex and varied ways that five contemporary photographers--Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan--use their own daily experiences as inspiration for their art.Each of these artists has created highly personal, shifting, and intriguing visions of his or her life. The works range from Tina Barneys orchestrated depictions of her friends and family in affluent New England settings to Nan Goldins unabashed portrayal of intimate, and often brutally honest, moments. Sally Mann turned to her children and their surroundings as her subject, and Larry Sultan has accomplished something similar in his depictions of his parents. Philip-Lorca diCorcia offers up his storybook life in photographs thatlike others in this groupspan nearly twen