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With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage - Revised and Updated Second Edition By Mary Motley Kalergis Marriage is where many family stories begin-not with children, but with a choice. A moment, sometimes impulsive or sometimes hard-won, when two people decide to build a life together. In With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage, award-winning documentary photographer Mary Motley Kalergis travels into the heart of that choice and beyond, pairing striking black-and-white portraits with unflinching, often tender interviews. Couples from across America share what brought them together, what sustains them, and what nearly broke them-speaking with candor about love, change, resilience, and the daily work of building a shared life. Originally published by the Chrysler Museum of Art and now reimagined as the first volume in Kalergis' five-part Building a Family series, this edition preserves the honesty and intimacy of the original while framing it as the opening chapter in a larger story about birth, motherhood, adoption, and parenting. In these pages, you will meet newlyweds, long-married partners, blended families, and couples who have endured illness, tragic loss, and incredible joy. Some stories are raw, others luminous-but all are real. Together, they form a testament to what it means to commit and to remain committed over time. This is not a book about weddings. It's a book about what happens after the vows-when love must grow up, bend, endure, and sometimes reinvent itself. For anyone interested in the human truths behind marriage, these images and voices offer something rare: a clear-eyed, compassionate portrait of the everyday courage it takes to build a life together. Perfect for: Anyone curious about the human realities behind the idea of ""happily ever after"" Couples at any stage of their journey Readers drawn to oral history and documentary photography

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Throughout our years of friendship, Mary and I have often puzzled over what has held our respective marriages together. In With This Ring, she has enlarged the scope of that question and pursued it with compassion, flexibility, and creativity: qualities that are perhaps answers in themselves."" -- Sally Mann, Guggenheim Fellow and Time magazine's ""America's Best Photographer.""

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Mary Motley Kalergis is an author, photographer and interviewer, whose work bears witness to the bonds that connect individuals, families, and communities.Her published books include Foxhunters Speak (Derrydale Press), Considering Adoption (Atelerix Press), Love In Black & White (Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing), Charlottesville Portrait (Howell Press), Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives (Stewart Tabori, & Chang), With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage (The Chrysler Museum of Art), Home of the Brave (E.P. Dutton), Mother: A Collective Portrait (E.P. Dutton), and Giving Birth (Harper & Row.)Her photographs are featured in numerous anthologies and collections including Aperture's Mothers and Daughters, Pantheon's Generations, Stemmle's In Their Mother's Eyes, National Geographic's Star Spangled Banner, Fawcett's In Celebration Of Babies, and Andrews McMeel's ""Waiting for Baby, Reflections and The Enduring Circle of Love.Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; The Burden Gallery and the International Center of Photography in NYC; The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia; the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida; The San Antonio Museum of Art;, The Field Museum of Chicago; the Museum Fur Photographie in Stuttgart, Germany and the Diaframa Kodak Galleria in Milan, Italy.Photographs by Mary have also appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, People, Time, Newsweek, Glamour, Ladies' Home Journal, Seventeen Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Marie Claire (France), The Guardian (London), and Camera Manuchi (Japan). Mary taught at The International Center of Photography in New York and has served as ""special stills"" photographer on movie sets, including Long Walk Home, and Cousin Bette.She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is currently working on her tenth book.

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