"Mann's subjects are her small children (a boy, a girl, and a new baby), often shot when they're sick or hurt or just naked. Nosebleeds, cuts, hives, chicken pox, swollen eyes, vomiting-the usual trials of childhood-can be alarmingly beautiful, thrillingly sensual moments in Mann's portrait album. Her ambivalence about motherhood-her delight and despair-pushes Mann to delve deeper into the steaming mess of family life than most of us are willing to go. What she comes up with is astonishing." -Vince Aletti, The Village Voice
 
"Immediate Family, which was published in 1990, must be counted as one of the great photograph books of our time. It is a singularly powerful evocation of childhood from within and without..." -Luc Sante, The New Republic