Help please? - interesting Biographies of Photographers

[Bill_1856]

I didn't like Diane Arbus - A Biography" by Patricia Bosworth. It was done without any co-operation from the family and I think it showed. James Mellow's unfinished Walker Evans was great. Shame he died before completing it but the time around Walker's ascendance is thorough and interesting. Tried but didn't complete a Steichen bio. Maybe he just didn't have as much personality as Evans. I've read Modotti, Weston's daybooks and Mapplethorpe's mentioned here. All good.

J

I concur.
Also, the Charis Weston book gives a great insight into Edward Weston after he started going down hill (IMO).

[Andrew Plume]

Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but have you read Edward Weston's Daybooks? Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were...

And Charis Wilson wrote of her years with Weston in Through Another Lens.

Hi Mark

yes I have Edward's 'Daybooks' but not Charis', so I'll look into that one too - thanks for taking the time to post

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

I concur.
Also, the Charis Weston book gives a great insight into Edward Weston after he started going down hill (IMO).

Hey Bill - thx for posting again

regards

andrew

[mdm]

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138467...rs?ft=1&f=1143

[Andrew Plume]

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138467...rs?ft=1&f=1143

hey David - thx for this, regards andrew

[Andrew Plume]

any other ideas, out there, please?

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Merg has posted today news of the long awaited (or at least be me) biography of Brett Weston

andrew