Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition - Hardcover

Weston, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597113107 ISBN 13: 9781597113106

Publisher: Aperture, 2015

Synopsis

This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcover in 1965, began its life in 1958 as a monographic issue of Aperture magazine published in celebration of Weston's life. Drawing on a decades-long collaboration between the photographer and Nancy Newhall, Aperture cofounder and early MoMA curator, this volume brings together a sequence of images and excerpts from Weston's writing in an effort to channel the photographer's creativity and, in his own words, present clearly my feeling for life with photographic beauty...without subterfuge or evasion in spirit or technique. Now, 50 years later, Aperture presents a reissue of this volume, which covers the range of Weston's greatest works, from the portraits and nudes to the landscapes and still-lifes. Accompanying and amplifying the images are Weston's own thoughts, excerpted from his now-famed daybooks and letters. Others who contributed to the making of the book include two of the artist's sons, Brett and Cole, and two other Aperture cofounders, filmmaker and author Dody Warren Weston and Ansel Adams, whose preface offers a posthumous tribute to the oeuvre of a remarkable artist. A brief bibliography as well as a chronology offer further insight into the life and work of this giant of twentieth-century photography.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Weston began to earn an international reputation for his portrait work in 1911. From 1923 to 1926 he worked in Mexico and California, where he lived with his sons, turning increasingly to subjects such as nudes, clouds, and close-ups of rocks, trees, vegetables, and shells. On a Guggenheim Fellowship from 1937 to 1939, he photographed throughout the American West. In 1948 Weston made his last photograph; he had been stricken with Parkinson’s disease several years earlier.

Review:

It comes as quite a shock to see pictures that aspire so unabashedly to high art, that are so conspicuously beautiful, as Edward Weston’s nudes. –The New York Times
Connoisseur of the sensual –The New York Times
As Edward Weston: Portraits shows, Weston didn't just photograph women, he exposed them. They fill the frame, they spill over it; their bodies are cropped so that discrete parts—legs, feet, and buttocks, the curve of ribs and breast—become the entire subject. It's as though the lens, and the photographer behind it, were touching and caressing them. –Vogue

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1597113107
• ISBN 13: 9781597113106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Newhall Nancy