There Were No Flowers: Margrethe Mather (w/ Travis Cannady) - Episode 74

<p>For full show notes and photos, head here: <a href='https://allthroughalens.com/?p=6143'>allthroughalens.com</a></p> <p> </p> <p>We’re talking to Travis Cannady (<a href='https://www.instagram.com/travis_cannady/'>@travis_cannady</a> on IG), photographer and publisher of Better Off Zine. For our main feature, we’ll tell you the story of the nearly-forgotten, yet wildly influential Margretha Mather (<a href='https://www.instagram.com/betteroffzine/'>@betteroffzine</a>). And that means we’ll have to talk about Edward Weston too, so… apologizes all around. We’ve also a zine review and maybe even the answering machine. </p> Travis Cannady <p>Along with being a film photographer and lab technician, our guest today, Travis Cannady is a zine maker. He creates and publishes his own, but he also does something pretty remarkable. He puts out a zine called Better Off. Each issue, the entire zine is dedicated to a single photographer. It’s the zine equivalent of a solo-show. Or really, it’s how some early photography periodicals used to do things. We’ve got him here, so let’s talk his ear off.</p> <p>IG: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/travis_cannady/'>@travis_cannady</a></p> <p>IG: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/betteroffzine/'>@betteroffzine</a></p> <p>Web: <a href='https://traviscannady.com/'>traviscannady.com</a></p> <p>Buy Better Off Zine: <a href='https://betteroffzine.com/'>betteroffzine.com</a></p> <p>Here are some of his photos:</p> Margrethe Mather (and That Other Guy) <p>The story of Margrethe Mather is not a simple story to tell. She was not a simple woman, nor a simple photographer. She was an anarchist in every sense of the word and held neither gods nor masters above her. Though wildly creative, she had little ambition for self-promotion, once telling Edward Weston, to leave her unremembered, to “pretend that I didn’t exist.”</p> <p>In biographies of Edward Weston prior to the 1980s, if she is mentioned at all, Margrethe Mather is hardly more than a footnote. She was thought of