Presents examples of Weston's work interspersed with descriptions of the events in his life that influenced his style

Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston

Arts & Photography

Weston, Edward

Newhall, Beaumont

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

The third installment in the series on Edward Weston presented by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts explores his involvement in the modernist movement; discusses the work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Pollack, and Picasso in comparison to his; and contains essays detailing every phase of Weston's work, accompanied by tritone reproductions.

Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Furth, Leslie

Cleveland Museum Of Art

Quinn, Karen E.

Stebbins, Theodore

Individual Artists

Bulfinch Pr

Nudes

Gordon Fraser

In 1953 the writer and curator Nancy Newhall assembled, with the cooperation of the photographer Edward Weston, a mock-up for an elegant book featuring Weston's photographs of the nude. It was the only book on this subject that Weston himself participated in creating. The sample book intersperses landscapes and still lifes with nude studies and includes an essay written by Newhall on the artist's aesthetic. The proposal was rejected in the 1950s, however, by publishers of fine art photographs, who were reluctant to address the subject. In 1985 the mock-up was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum with some pages and prints missing, yet it was only in 2006 that curator Brett Abbott recognized the key to reconstructing the unpublished book in its entirety. Now, in association with the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Getty has finally been able to realize Newhall and Weston's vision. The present volume has been produced with distinctions of paper and ink to indicate those elements that have been added-including a preface by the curator and thumbnail reproductions of the mock-up as it now exists-and those elements that were part of the original, including Newhall's essay and all thirty-nine photographs, arranged on the pages as Newhall and Weston had placed them.

Edward Weston's Book of Nudes

NEWHALL, Nancy

Oxford University Press

Of all the unnoticed works of art in nature revealed by Weston's camera it was the human form that most persistently challenged this great photographer throughout his working life. Erotic, sculptural, and poetic, his nude photographs of lovers, friends, and of his son Neil combine the essentials of physical passion with a desire to go beyond the transitory to a discovery of eternal forms.\nIn his search for the ideal, Weston concentrated on the fundamental physical aspects of his subjects, empowering his prints with an intrinsic grace and elegance. There is a desire to draw near, and a distant, unknowable sense of sculpture; reflection of universal rhythms, revealing the "vital essence of things."

Edward Weston Nudes

Wilson B., C

Photography & Video

Aperture

"To Weston's eye...the landscape of the human body was an unending revelation of forms both voluptuous and abstract. His genius as an artist lay in his ability to respond to both with equal passion." --Hilton Kramer, The New York Times

Edward Weston Nudes: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks and Letters

Wilson, Charis

A comprehensive selection of Edward Weston's photographs, printed to the artist's specifications, is enhanced by biograhical detail and critical commentary

Edward Weston, His Life and Photographs, Revised Edition

A comprehensive selection of Edward Weston's photographs, printed to the artist's specifications, is enhanced by biograhical detail and critical commentary

Edward Weston Ltd

Maddow, B

For more than 15 years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society and his art. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature. Weston was a towering figure in twentieth-century photography, whose restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it resulted in a body of work unrivaled in the medium. John Szarkowski observes that "It was as though the things of everyday experience had been transformed... into organic sculptures, the forms of which were both the expression and the justification of the life within... He had freed his eyes of conventional expectation, and had taught them to see the statement of intent that resides in natural form."

Daybooks of Edward Weston

Gathers landscapes, portraits, nudes, and still lifes by Weston and discusses his approach to photography

Edward Weston (Masters of Photography, 7)

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