Book Review Week
I love reading biographies and these three very different stories are some of my favorites.
Limelight is a memoir by Helen Gee and traces her history opening this country’s first photography gallery. If you love photography and photographers, you will enjoy this immensely. It is a charming tale of Greenwich Village and the coming of age of photography as an art form.
Walker Evans a biography by James R. Mellow. Much has been written about Evans, but this exquisitely written biography is my favorite. Mellow’s carefully researched book rewards the reader with new insights and lots of wonderful stories.
Another biography favorite of mine is de Kooning, An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. This biography tells the story of de Kooning’s life, but it also provides an in-depth history into the New York art scene from the 1930’s to 1990’s. The book was published in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
