From L’Engle to Levinas to the laundry list—anything, really, as long as it is read well. We present this series, Writers Read, to integrate the expanding auditory space of the written word into the experience of X-TRA.

Edward Weston, R. M. Schindler’s Lovell Beach House (1926), 1927. Scan of black-and-white negative, 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. R. M. Schindler papers. Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC, Santa Barbara.

Susan Morgan reads her text, “Looking at a Picture, Illustrating an Idea.” An investigation of Edward Weston’s lost photographs of the Beach House designed by R.M. Schindler for Dr. Philip Lovell, published in X-TRA Volume 22, number 1 (Fall 2019). To read along, find the article text here.

Susan Morgan’s writing about art, design, and cultural biography has been featured in specialist periodicals and mainstream magazines—publications as diverse as Aperture and W. Her research about American modernism has been supported by the Center for Creative Photography, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and the Graham Foundation.