Recensione:
"Guerrero took some of the most candid photographs of the man Martin Filler calls 'the greatest architect the United States had ever produced and perhaps this country's greatest artist in any medium.' They include everyday moments, like Wright ringing the dinner bell at Taliesin near Spring Green, overseeing the haying, donning quasi-royal Montenegrin dress and high Cuban heels one Halloween night and having tea in the garden room while perusing Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with his wife, Olgivanna. Those pictures of the couple are presumed to be their last together. There are lovely shots of many of Wright's projects, taken over time, including the many years of work to Taliesin West. In the end, though, the book may be most worth having because of the stories told by this photographer, who for decades called Frank Lloyd Wright his friend."
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
L'autore:
Pedro E. Guerrero (1917–2012) spent his career of more than 60 years photographing the most illustrious American architects and artists of the 20th century, the most famous of whom was Frank Lloyd Wright. Following Wright’s death, Guerrero went on to document the groundbreaking modernist works of Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson and Edward Durell Stone, as well as such legendary figures as Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, John Huston, Julia Child and Alexey Brodovich.
Martin Filler (foreword) is an American architecture critic who has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books since 1985. His writing on modern architecture has been published in more than 30 journals, magazines and newspapers in the U.S., Europe and Japan. He is the author of Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry (2007) and Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas (2013).
Dixie Legler Guerrero (afterword), who married Pedro Guerrero in 2008, was the founder and editor of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. She is the author of several books, including Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work (1999) and Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School (1999).
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