Edward Weston's Seeing Photographically - Blogger.

Where some people might see ugliness or imperfection, Edward Weston was able to take the undesirable, such as his Pepper No. 30, 1930 (a malformed pepper), or Excusado, 1925 (a toilet bowl), and bring out the beauty by accentuating the curves with clever use of light thereby transforming the “ugly” into sculptural objects, while also having a sense of humor.

Published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition, Edward Weston: Life Work is a 110-photograph survey of this great American artist. Containing photographs from all phases of Weston's long and varied career, from his first nude in 1909 to his final landscape at Point Lobos, California, in 1948, previously unpublished masterpieces are interspersed with his well-known signature images.

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Then so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. - Edward Weston, Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition (Aperture Monograph) by Edward Weston (Photographer), Ansel Adams (Contributor), Nancy Newhall (Editor), ISBN: 0893815330, Page: 42.

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Shells is a medium-size black and white photograph taken by the American photographer Edward Weston in 1927. The image features a nautilus shell balanced within an abalone shell that rests upon a semi-reflective surface. The combined shells are set against a plain, dark background, and their pale tones mean that they shine brightly against it.

This photo essay seeks to evoke thought from the audience on what society defines as cheating. This challenges the audience to question what is defined as cheating to them. Cheating, drug use.

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He's been gone 55 years, but the American West we see in our mind's eye still owes much to Edward Weston's photographic eye. Yet because he worked in more or less every one of the known forms of his day — portrait, landscape, still-life, scenes in a variety of tones, and beyond — we tend to think we know Weston's work when we've only seen a fraction of it.

Guggenheim Foundation grant, and he published his first book of photographs, Seeing California with Edward Weston, in 1939. In the early 1940s, Weston selected and printed 500 of his photographs as a gift to the Huntington Library.

Edward Weston, “Seeing Photographically,” in Alan Trachtenberg, ed., Classic Essays on Photography, 169-175.. Review the Szarkowski essay we read for September 8th. Postwar and Post-Colony in African Photography. Paper synopsis and annotated bibliography due.

Some Final Thoughts on Edward Weston. I realize as I close out this article that it is March 24th, Edward Weston’s birthday. Oddly fitting as I think back on the legacy and lessons he left us to help better ourselves as photographers. Weston was a master of making the simple profound.