Description

Artful Lives: Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles
Publisher: Getty Publications, 2011
Hardcover, 392 pages, English
Size: 26×18.5cm
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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.