For many years, Brett Weston envisioned a book that would share with his audience a unique collection of previously unpublished photographs from his private archive.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

Arts & Photography

WESTON, Brett

Photography & Video

Photography West Graphics

Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body was the first collection of Bernhard s forty-year study of the nude to be presented in a single, elegantly bound monograph. The photographs selected, many of which have never been exhibited, unveil the true range of her feminine genius. Bernhard s intense, studied camera work had produced images of he human form that clearly transcend the boundaries between the spirit and the flash. This collection expresses her lifelong passion to understand the effects of light on the body and to reveal it in its purest form. Each illustrious photograph contains a classic perfection, giving it a sense of the eternal and making it a timeless masterpiece of the human figure. Complete with an insightful overview of Ruth Bernhard s artistry and working life, this landmark volume offers the viewer a stunning array of fifty master prints by one of the most significant artists of our time, revealing a unique and personal vision of the human body that is as breathtaking as it is profound.

Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body : A Collection of Fifty Nudes - Centennial Edition

Individual Artists

Morley Baer (1916-1995) worked in photography with a quiet perseverance for nearly fifty years often alongside such legendary associates as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. His unwavering dedication to the large format 8 x 10 camera and painstaking meticulous contact printing resulted in images of exquisite detail, tonality and unusual nuance. These photographs comprise an important segment of the American photographic achievement, particularly the West Coast School. Unlike others, notably Ansel Adams, Morley Baer avoided the spectacular in nature. He was the quintessential poet of the commonplace, an artist who illuminated the ordinary in such a way that it becomes unforgettable. Over the years, Baer came to be regarded as one of the country s greatest architectural photographers, but his fine landscapes often bordering on the mystical, form a significant focus of his aesthetic contribution. Light Years: The Photographs of Morley Baer, encompassing the entire career of this artist, is a volume with a broad scope and perspective. It presents the full range of Baer s mastery with the camera.

Light Years: The Photographs of Morley Baer

Jordan, Jim

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

Signed by the Artist, Masterworks From Forty Years presents the first chronological overview of Caponigro s entire photographic career in a single, beautifully printed and bound monograph. Each black-and-white photograph has been reproduced to facsimile quality and carefully varnished for this first edition. Readers familiar with Paul Capongiro s previous publications, The Wise Silence, Sunflower and Megaliths, will be delighted with this extended examination of Caponigro s artistic contribution. Many of the images seen in this first edition have never been published before. David Stroud contributes a thoughtful, original essay that examines Caponigro s artistic development, from his earliest years of instruction and apprenticeship, through the masterworks that establish his place in the history of photography, to more recently created images that comprise his mature achievement.

Paul Caponigro: Masterworks from Forty Years

Paul Caponigro

CLOSE TO INFINITY presents for the first time a collection of Worth's finest work in a single elegantly bound monograph. Many photographs reproduced here have never been exhibited and were known only to the artist's closest friends. The addition of this unseen work unveils for the first time the full range of Worth's genius. A landmark volume, CLOSE TO INFINITY unfolds a stunning array of master prints, revealing a sustained and reverent photographic vision that is as breathtaking as it is profound.

Don Worth - Close to Infinity: Photographs from Six Decades

Don Worth

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