Edward Weston : forms of passion / edited by Gilles Mora ; with essays by Gilles Mora, Terence Pitts, Trudy Wilner Stack, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Alan Trachtenberg ; design and sequence by John and Dorothy Hill.

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Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1995.
Description
367 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

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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.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-366) and index.
      Contents
      • 1911-1923 : before Mexico: the early photographs / Terence Pitts
      • 1923-1926 : in Mexico: a testing ground / Gilles Mora
      • 1927-1937 : an appetite for the thing itself: vegetables and female nudes / Trudy Wilner Stack
      • 1937-1939 : the Guggenheim years / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
      • 1939-1948 : the final years / Alan Trachtenberg.
      Other title(s)
      Forms of passion
      ISBN
      • 0810939797
      • 9780810939790
      LCCN
      95010640
      OCLC
      32272248
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