Artful Lives - Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles

Beth Gates Warren is an independent scholar and consultant in the field of fine art photography.

"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 "Beth Gates Warren succeeds in bringing [Mather] out of obscurity and making a persuasive case for her photographic talent."--Los Angeles Review of Books "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 "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 "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 "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