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Edward Weston

    Edward Weston was an American photographer celebrated for his meticulously crafted black-and-white images. Working predominantly with an 8x10 view camera, his work is characterized by its formal clarity, exquisite detail, and profound engagement with the visual world. Weston explored the inherent beauty in everyday objects and the human form, his approach emphasizing texture and pure aesthetic form. His innovative techniques and artistic vision cemented his status as a pivotal figure in photographic history.

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    • Edward Weston

      • 367 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
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      This new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because of the onset of Parkinson's disease ten years prior to his death in 1958. Treated chronologically and emphasizing Weston's creative preoccupations in each period, the book includes work that he created in 1938 and 1939 with funds from the first two Guggenheim Foundation grants ever awarded to a photographer.To illustrate the book vintage prints have been selected from the copious Weston Archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the highly important Lane Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 10,000 photographs have been examined in order to select those reproduced in the book.

      Edward Weston
    • Auf dem Kunstmarkt ist Edward Weston (1886–1958) seit Langem einer der am höchsten gehandelten amerikanischen Photographen. Vor wenigen Wochen erst überschritt eine seiner photographischen Ikonen – Nautilus, die gestochen scharfe, glasklare Untersicht einer Muschel – bei einer Auktion die magische Millionen $-Schwelle. Weston, schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende, war wie kaum ein anderer stilprägend für alle folgenden Photographengenerationen. Anfang der 20er Jahre brach er mit dem Piktorialismus seiner Anfänge und wurde zum führenden Verfechter der 'Straight Photography', die bald die modernen Druckmedien erobern sollte. Neben kühlen und zugleich bestechend sinnlichen Sachaufnahmen – Früchte, Steine, Sanddünen – wurden vor allem seine Akte zu Klassikern der Moderne. Gegen Ende seines Lebens stellte Weston eine Auswahl seiner Aktaufnahmen für eine Buchpublikation zusammen, fand aber keinen Verleger. Die Maquette mit 26 Silbergelatine- Abzügen befindet sich heute im Besitz des Getty Museums, das sich jetzt entschlossen hat, Edward Westons Book of Nudes endlich und zum ersten Mal zu veröffentlichen.

      Edward Weston's book of nudes