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Maria Loh recommends the best books on Lives of Artists
- maldusiecle 9y agoWhat a bizarre list. Camera Lucida and On Photography are masterpieces that anyone interested in photography as an art form should read, but they don't say a lot about the lives of the artists whose work they describe. Barthes says virtually nothing about the photographers' lives, in fact.
- franzen 9y agoWhile I can't vouch for anything beyond Just Kids (which is spectacular), here are some other ferociously good reads on the lives of artists: * Ernest Hemingway - A moveable feast * David Lipsky - Of course you end up becoming yourself * David Sylvester - Interviews with Francis Bacon