| Review |
"In her memoir, Susan Garrett brings together key scenes from her girlhood in Pennsylvania during World War II with the art and craft of photography. She describes living with her irascible, social-climbing grandmother while her mother pieced together a living taking pictures of the children of the wealthy inhabitants of the Main Line, an elite suburban enclave of Philadelphia. Her mother, Alice Benedict, was one of the few women photographers of her day - a student and protoge of Alfred Stieglitz. |
| Summary |
Garrett sketches the science and history of photography, populating her narrative with legendary figures like Margaret Bourke-White, a bold contemporary of her mother and with whom Susan sensed her mother's veiled competitiveness; pioneers of photography like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Daguerre, and Fox Talbot; and writers like Susan Sontag, whose work ponders the meaning and ethical responsibility of taking photographs and ordinary people who captured her imagination as a sensitive young girl - such as the Japanese man who taught her how to dry a stack of dishes, who later was sent away on a tip from her mother, most likely to an internment camp."--Jacket. |
| Local note | Inscribed on title page "For Stuart [Wright], with love, Susan [Garrett]." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are seven letters from Susan Garrett to Wright (1988-2009), an invitation for Rosalie Alice Garrett's wedding (24 May 1986), and three Christmas cards from the Garretts to Wright (1993, 2006-2007). Stuart Wright Book Collection #160.19. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, George Garrett Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Garrett, Susan, 1931- Quick-eyed love. 1st ed. Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2005 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2005051578 |
| ISBN | 0870745018 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780870745010 (alk. paper) |
