About The Book
This book presents thirty-two color images chosen from approximately sixty transparencies produced by photographer Edward Weston between 1946 and 1948, near the end of his career, and includes essays that discuss his relationship with the Eastman Kodak Company in the advent of color film, and Weston’s original 1953 essay “Color as Form.”
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About The Artist
Edward Weston (1886-1958), an American photographer was born in Highland Park, Illinois. Weston began to make photographs in Chicago parks in 1902, and his works were first exhibited in 1903 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Three years later he moved to California and opened a portrait studio in a Los Angeles suburb. The Western landscape soon became his principal subject matter. In the 1930s, Weston and several other photographers, including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard van Dyke, formed the f/64 group, which greatly influenced the aesthetics of American photography. In 1937, Weston received the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer, which freed him from earning a living as a portraitist. The works for which he is famous–sharp, stark, brilliantly printed images of sand dunes, nudes, vegetables, rock formations, trees, cacti, shells, water, and human faces are among the finest of 20th-century photographs.
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Specifics
Edward Weston: Color Photography (Center for Creative Photography, 1986). Essays by Terence Pitts and Nancy Newhall. 30 pages. 31 unnumbered pages of plates. 25 x 26 cm.
Source: https://archive.org/details/edwardwestoncolo0000west
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