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PublisherGetty Publications

ISBN-101606060708

ISBN-139781606060704

eBay Product ID (ePID)109338398

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Book TitleArtful Lives : Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, United States / General

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorBeth Gates Warren

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight46.2 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-051328

Reviews"An illuminating insight into both the creative process and into the lives of a group of people influential in creating the cultural world in which we still live today."- Photographica World, "A meticulously insightful account of the decade of collaboration between southern California photographers Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, an interval little examined by art historians."-- College & Research Library News, "A rehabilitation of an unjustly forgotten photographer, this absorbing read will appeal to students of art and California."- Library Journal, "In Artful Lives , Beth Gates Warren recaptures the milieu that formed both [Edward Weston and Margarethe Mather], and restores Margarethe Mather's unique accomplishment to the position it deserves."-- Times Literary Supplement, This well-researched biography uncovers the story of Edward Weston's early career years in Los Angeles, his partnership with fellow photographer Margarethe Mather, and their artistic community."— Photo Life, "Beth Gates Warren succeeds in bringing [Mather] out of obscurity and making a persuasive case for her photographic talent."-- Los Angeles Review of Books, "A meticulously insightful account of the decade of collaboration between southern California photographers Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, an interval little examined by art historians."- College & Research Library News, Beth Gates Warren succeeds in bringing [Mather] out of obscurity and making a persuasive case for her photographic talent."— Los Angeles Review of Books, Author Beth Gates Warren, a former director of Sotheby's photo department, has written her exhaustively researched book with the page-turning pace of a novel. Her prose has as much love for its young, sexy and messy principals as it does for the city in which they lived."— PureWow, "A rehabilitation of an unjustly forgotten photographer, this absorbing read will appeal to students of art and California."-- Library Journal, "This well-researched biography uncovers the story of Edward Weston's early career years in Los Angeles, his partnership with fellow photographer Margarethe Mather, and their artistic community."-- Photo Life, "One of the more hidebound notions about American art is that modern art photography was strictly an East Coast phenomenon, and that Los Angeles represented a cultural backwater. Last fall's publication of Artful Lives , Beth Gates Warren's groundbreaking study of Edward Weston and Margarethe Mather, thoroughly debunks this falsehood."-- Glendale News Press, "Author Beth Gates Warren, a former director of Sotheby's photo department, has written her exhaustively researched book with the page-turning pace of a novel. Her prose has as much love for its young, sexy and messy principals as it does for the city in which they lived."-- PureWow, One of the more hidebound notions about American art is that modern art photography was strictly an East Coast phenomenon, and that Los Angeles represented a cultural backwater. Last fall's publication of Artful Lives , Beth Gates Warren's groundbreaking study of Edward Weston and Margarethe Mather, thoroughly debunks this falsehood."— Glendale News Press, "An illuminating insight into both the creative process and into the lives of a group of people influential in creating the cultural world in which we still live today."-- Photographica World, In Artful Lives , Beth Gates Warren recaptures the milieu that formed both [Edward Weston and Margarethe Mather], and restores Margarethe Mather's unique accomplishment to the position it deserves."— Times Literary Supplement

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal779/.9979494

SynopsisTells the story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both photographic artists at the centre of the Bohemian cultural scene of Los Angeles during the 1910s and 20s, Weston would go on to become an influential American photographer of the 20th century, while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would vanish into obscurity., This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.

LC Classification NumberTR139.W365 2011