Edward Weston: A Legacy by Susan Danly, Jonathan Spaulding and Jessica Todd Smith (PT191)

Published 2003: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original black cloth with silver titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 288 very clean and bright pages, previous owners details on the first page. Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket. Scarce! (PT191)

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This is the first major book to celebrate the Huntington's collection of five hundred Edward Weston photographs, all of them selected and printed for the institution by the artist in the 1940s. The Guggenheim photographs lie at the heart of this legacy, but Weston also included in his gift still-life studies from the early 1920s and 1930s, as well as later landscapes from the 1940s. Weston selected these photographs as representative of his best work, and they are reproduced here, complemented by investigations into the influences that shaped them

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2003
Format: Hardcover
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Edward Weston gave more that 500 of his favorite works to the Huntington Library. Note books and other written material complete a major collection. This book is a major attempt to organize and say something meaningful about a prolific, private genius. I haven't read it all but I've already learned a lot and I've studied Weston for 40 years. The reproductions and their display as 8X10 contact prints is one of the most astonishing feats of printing I've ever seen, especially the nudes of Charis Wilson and the incredible sand dunes at Oceano. There are many photos that I have never seen, many I have seen and some I've held in my hand. This gives me the perspective to say that this book is worth buying just for the prints. You'll think as I have that you missed something until now, especially if all you've seen is book prints. This is as close you'll come to the real thing in print. I've sat buried in this book for half an hour, afraid to breath.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2005
Format: Hardcover
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If you don't have any photography book with Weston's pictures, get this one... You will get perfect selection of pictures well printed. It's almost fundamental book for everyone interested in photography.

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