Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright's Photographer - Hardcover

Guerrero, Pedro E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566408040 ISBN 13: 9781566408042

Publisher: Pomegranate, 1993

Synopsis

Most of the black-and-white photographs are interiors and exteriors of the American architect's work, but some are informal shots of Wright at work or leisure 1936-56. Short essays provide personal accounts of particular periods or projects. No bibliography. Available from Pomegranate Artbooks, Box 6099, Rohnert Park, CA 94927-6099. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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About the Author:

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).

From Library Journal:

In 1939 Guerrero was hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to photograph himself and his work. This began a 20-year association during which Guerrero documented the evolution of Taliesin in Arizona from a camp into a renowned architectural community. Guerrero also captured Wright on film at Taliesin East in Wisconsin, at his suite in New York, and at work sites. Wright's apprentices are seen learning their trade and even growing their own food. Guerrero masterfully combines candid and posed duotones with perhaps the finest photographs ever taken of Wright's extraordinary structures. Some of the photos are the only ones documenting projects on completion, before the changes made by subsequent owners. Guerrero's candid and entertaining stories complete this important addition to the extensive body of work about the architect. Though not intended to rival William Allin Storrer's The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion (LJ 2/1/ 94), this is a more human, impressionistic volume. Recommended for most libraries.
Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Amherst, Mass.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1566408040
• ISBN 13: 9781566408042
• Binding: Hardcover