Search Results: Authors starting with W from Erin Waters Fine Photographs

Edwin C. Walker (1849-1931), a free love and speech advocate, writer/editor, and a bit of an anarchist, lived a good long life fighting and writing for his causes. He worked on Lucifer The Light Bearer in Kansas and it is there that he met his future wife (at least for a time), the daughter of the editor Moses Harman. Two decades Lillian Harman's elder, they married in 1886 and set off a firestorm and a notable court case thanks to the fact that their marriage refused to acknowledge any government restraint. That it also gave the man AND the woman involved equal rights in the marriage was also a problem... Later in life, when living in New York, he helped found the Free Speech League, a precursor to the ACLU.
The pamphlet for sale here, about temperance in reference to the Bible, "was entered upon in the interest of temperance, and of moral and intellectual honesty" (preface). The honesty being that the Bible does not, in fact, call for temperance. On page 17, he posits, "what would the Christian… Read More

Wendy Worth is a native New Yorker who graduated from Pratt. She was a model who was friendly with the artists in the city in the 1960s and 1970s including Andy Warhol. She was a longtime model for artist George Segal (1924-2000) and was cast by him many times. In 1983 she married minor 60s pop star Peter Asher.
Spider Webb is a famous New York tattoo artist who is still working today. In the 1970s, when tattooing was banned in the city, he tattooed porn star Annie Sprinkles on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in protest.
This card is a silver gelatin print with Worth's 23 Greene St in New York printed under it. It measures 3 x 5 and is in fine condition with light marks. 1970s.