From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 08/30/02-08:00:34 PM Z
Now this is a darned good story. Gotta get the book
> From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:43:27 -0400 (EDT)
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Coffer workshop et al
>
> Hi Judy. Thanks so much for the heads-up on the workshop. I finally figured
> out who to contact and have signed up-- I think I got the last place. It
> should be fantastic. I love the look of wet plate almost as much as the
> Calotype!
>
> And BTW, with all this talk of Weston, the Nude and such, I was reminded of
> his girlfriend Margrethe Mather. Have you read the recent book, "Margrethe
> Mather & Edward Weston" A Passionate Collaboration," ? Wonderful book. She
> was a free spirit who was not above trading sexual favors for supplies down
> at the local camera shop. Very talented photographer herself, she was
> apparently the key to Weston's success as he was just a run-of-the-mill hack
> until he met her and she showed him her style and technique, which he adopted
> (ripped off?) as his own. He soon showed her the door and never looked back.
> He refused, for the most part, to acknowledge the relationship and she came
> to a rather sad end. Earlier this year one of her portraits of Weston sold at
> auction for more than $200,000.
>
> All the best. Arthur
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