In a landmark biography, the influential photographer is shown to be not the social propagandist he is often assumed to be from his famous Depression-era photographs, but rather the advocate of an uncompromising photographic realism. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, the Washington Post, Gourmet, and Arts magazine.
James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the
New York Times, Architectural Digest, the
Washington Post, Gourmet, and
Arts magazine.