Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones

Last week the book Easy Beauty by author, Chloe Cooper Jones arrived in my mailbox. The book features one of my photographs on the cover of the book. I made the photo at Bromley Rock Provincial Rock near Princeton, B.C. March 2010. Easy Beauty is a memoir that examines our concept of beauty, and how it extends to how we look at disabled bodies. Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and freelance journalist who was a finalist for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. Her work has appeared in publications including GQ, The Verge, VICE, Bookforum, New York magazine, and The Believer, and has been selected for both The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Sports Writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Book cover art: Easy Beauty

Here is one of my photographs on the cover of Easy Beauty a book by Chloe Cooper Jones. 

 

Easy Beauty is a memoir which examines our concept of beauty, and how it extends to how we look at disabled bodies. 

 

The photo was made at Bromley Rock Provincial Rock near Princeton, B.C. March 2010. 

 

The UK version of Easy Beauty is published by Little, Brown Book Group (ISBN: 9780349013824) In North America, the book (using different cover art) is published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (ISBN: 13:9781982151997) 

 

Twisted tree roots (No. 16) Princeton, British Columbia, Canada, March 2010. Photograph by Gary Nylander. A close-up of twisted tree roots from a cedar tree at the edge of Similkameen River at Bromley Rock Provincial Rock. 4x5 Ebony View camera, 120mm Schneider lens.