Edward Weston (1886 1958) was one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. Jean Charlot (1898 1979), a classically trained French artist best known for his murals, woodcuts, and paintings celebrating Mexican culture, played a key role as a participant and chronicler of the Mexican Renaissance. This book, based on letters that Weston and Charlot exchanged from the early 1920s until Weston s death in 1958, documents a friendship that says as much about art about photography and fresco, practice, criticism, and history as it does about the intersection of a number of...