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Photography, Photographers, A-Z, Weston, Edward
Edward Weston: Portraits
by Aperture (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)
Weston spent the greatest part of his towering career setting a standard of photographic portraiture. Included are images of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, and James Cagney. Together these photographs create a powerful volume that demands a fresh look at this central endeavor of his life's work.
Edward Weston (Aperture Masters of Photography)
by Aperture (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)
A towering figure in twentieth-century photography, Edward Weston sought to awaken human vision-- to lead viewers to "see through their eyes, not with them." His restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it created a body of work unrivaled in the medium.This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series offers Weston masterpieces drawn from photographs spanning more than four decades. Included are his early Pictorialist images; industrial studies of Armco Steel; stunning portraits from his Mexican period; the breakthrough still lifes and landscapes of the thirties; and the sometimes acerbic images of the later years.R. H. Cravens's essay draws upon Weston's writings and recollections by sons, lovers, and friends. What emerges is the profile of "a thoroughly American genius-- courageous, pure, troubled, unorthodox, and utterly sure of its purpose."The Aperture Masters of Photography series is devoted to those individuals whose achievements have accorded them ...
Edward Weston Omnibus: A Critical Anthology
by Gibbs Smith (Paperback)
EW 100: Centennial Essays in Honor of Edward Weston
by Friends of Photography, Carmel, California (Paperback)
Amy Conger
Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (Monographs)
by Phaidon Press (Hardcover)
Born in Illinois in 1886, Edward Weston opened a studio in California in 1911 where he achieved success as a commercial photographer, making portraits in the popular soft-focus, pictorialist style of the time. By the early 1920s, Weston had become dissatisfied with these 'false', retouched and manipulated images, and after meeting Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler in 1922, began to adopt a more straightforward, realistic style of photography. In 1922 Weston took photographs of the Armco Steelworks in Ohio and his break with pictorialism is evident in the simplicity and clarity of his sharply focused image of a row of smokestacks. The following year, Weston moved to Mexico where he continued to experiment with 'straight photography' in a series of nude studies of Tina Modotti, his lover and collaborator over the next few years. Modotti introduced him to the artists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco who influenced Weston to develop his modernist style. In the ...
Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (Aperture Monograph)
by Aperture (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-06-15)
In the years since Edward Weston passed away in Carmel, California, he remains in memory as a man of great spirit, integrity, and power. To me he was a profound artist and friend in the deepest sense of the word. Living, as I do now, within a mile of his last home, sensing the same scents of the sea and the pine forests, the grayness of the same fogs, the glory of the same triumphal storms, and the ageless presence of the Point Lobos stone, I find it very difficult to realize he is no longer with us in actuality.Edward understood thoughts and concepts which dwell on simple mystical levels. His work--direct and honest as it is--leaped from a deep intuition and belief in forces beyond the apparent and the factual. He accepted these forces as completely real and part of the total world of man and nature, only a small portion of which most of us experience directly. As with any great artist or imaginative scientist, the concept is immediate and clear, but the "working out" takes ...
Beth Gates Warren
Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration
by W. W. Norton & Company (Hardcover)
Margrethe Mather is remembered mainly through the commentary of Edward Weston, who referred to her as "the first important person" in his life. In fact, Mather was probably the greatest influence on the development of Weston's early career. They met in 1913 and developed a close relationship, working together as partners. Weston was in love with Mather and they had a brief affair during his first marriage. This book chronicles their 12-year association and sheds light on Mather, whose artistry has been overshadowed by the massive reputation of Weston.
Sarah M. Lowe, Dody Weston Thompson, Edward Weston
Edward Weston Life Work: Photographs from the Collection of Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis
by Lodima Pr (Hardcover)
This photograph survey of the great American artist contains photographs from all phases of Weston's long and varied career, from his first nude in 1909 to his final landscape at Point Lobos, California, in 1948. Previously unpublished masterpieces are interspersed with his well-known signature images. Edward Weston: Life Work encompasses the full historical range of his imagery: his Mexican work, shell and vegetable still lifes, sculptural nudes, sand-dune abstractions, and more.
Edward Weston (Postcardbooks)
by Taschen America Llc (Paperback)
Amy Conger
Edward Weston in Mexico, 1923-1926
by Univ of New Mexico Pr (Hardcover)