Brett Weston (1911-1993) was generally acknowledged as one of the finest printers in his time. In this monograph, the plates of Weston's pictures are reproduced virtually to facsimile quality. Among the selections from the artist's life-work are brilliant, sometimes brooding studies of natural formations and still-lifes as well as man-made landscapes. A gorgeous production. Cloth-bound hardback in dust jacket. 131 pages; 100 b&amp;w photographic plates; 12 x 14 inches. Includes a list of plates, a chronology, a bibliography and an exhibition history.

Brett Weston

Arts & Photography

Cravens, R

WESTON, Brett

Photography & Video

Aperture

Voyage of the Eye

Individual Artists

Voyage of the eye

Aperture, Inc.

For many years, Brett Weston envisioned a book that would share with his audience a unique collection of previously unpublished photographs from his private archive. Brett Weston: A Personal Selection realized his longtime desire, featuring 101 brilliant images considered by Weston to be his most important unknown work. Many of the images contained in Brett Weston: A Personal Selection were created from 1980-1986, highlighting the ongoing creative genius of this West Coast master photographer still producing after sixty years of disciplined commitment to his artistry. The essay is contributed by Dody Weston Thompson, last assistant to Edward Weston, whose unique perspective gained from years working with Brett and Edward Weston results in a brilliant comparison of their essential artistic differences. Few artists have labored so ardently with the lifetime dedication and consuming passion that marked the career of Brett Weston, and fewer photographers have produced a volume of prints so uniquely visualized with the private imagination, technical brilliance and compositional purity that resounds throughout this collection of previously unknown images.

Brett Weston, a Personal Selection

Photography West Graphics

Although Brett Weston had a prolific 68-year career of major one-man exhibitions and has been the subject of five books, none ever attempted a chronological overview of his development as an artist. Brett Weston: Master Photographer is a comprehensive examination of Brett Weston s life in photography from 1925 to 1988. It provides an overview of Weston s aesthetic contribution from his first precocious images in Mexico to new photographs completed just before press time. This oversized edition addresses the six decades of Weston s working life through a selection of 15 corresponding photographs each accompanied by an essay authored by a distinguished writer, such as Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke. A final presentation of new images - completed after 1986 - is introduced by Weston himself. This is the most comprehensive overview currently available on the life and photography of Brett Weston.

Master Photographer

Brett Weston,1911-1993, photographed the Island of Hawaii for over a decade. In his final years, that tropical retreat had become the single most important and inspirational location for his relentless exploration with the camera. Hawaii: Fifty Photographs by Brett Weston presents the finest of the period of Weston s work, from 1978 through 1991. This landmark edition takes the reader through a stunning series of Hawaiian images presenting the artist s visual interpretation of this varied tropical island, from the volcanic lava flows to the lush vegetation and steaming forest. Weston s sixty-five year exploration of his deeply felt visual themes culminated in a prolific collection of final work focused on this remarkable and constantly changing Pacific isle.

Hawaii: Fifty Photographs

Between 1939 and 1980 Brett Weston produced sixteen limited edition portfolios of original photographs. He believed passionately in the power of his original prints and chose the portfolio as the way to reach an expanded audience while still maintaining control over image quality. Today, Weston's original portfolios are rare, expensive, and relatively inaccessible in museums, archives, libraries, or private collections. Most of the photographs in these new books have never before been reproduced. To recreate the feeling of the original portfolios, great care has been taken not only with the reproduction of the photographs, but with every aspect of these books. Where there is text in the portfolios, it is reproduced in facsimile, and the colour of each book's cover has been selected to match the covers of the original portfolio cases.

Portfolios of Brett Weston: San Francisco v. 1

Lodima Press

The original White Sands portfolio, produced in 1949, contained twelve photographs and was printed in an edition of fifty. This book contains the original ten photographs and four pictures from Weston's 1975 edition.

White Sands (Portfolio Book)

"The New York" portfolio was produced by Weston in 1951. It contains Weston's photographs of New York from the 1940s - photographs that contrast with his photographs of San Francisco and evidence Weston's growth as a photographer. The original 1951 title page and the introduction by Beaumont Newhall are reproduced in facsimile. Included is an afterword by art historian Roger Aikin.

New York: Twelve Photographs

Roger Cushing Aikin

Brett Weston first picked up a camera in Mexico as a fourteen-year-old when he spent several months there with his father Edward in 1924. This title demonstrates his love of Mexico and its unique light and natural forms.

Baja California

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