Title: Edward Weston portraits /
Authors: Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.; Morgan, Susan.; Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.; Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.
Publisher: Aperture,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Weston, Edward,; Weston, Edward, Diaries.; Portrait photography
Abstract: Edward Weston Portraits is the first published collection of Edward Weston's most revealing portraits and shows the artist at his most inspired: "rendering the very substance, the deeper inner image" of sons, lovers, friends, and fellow artists with such commanding immediacy that they linger in the mind's eye long after viewing. Weston seized the photographic moment through a shrewd and unusual technique: by only pretending to shoot film for a period of time before actually taking the photograph, and then flashing the lens cap without the subjects' knowing, he cleverly guided them beyond "the pose," even allowing his sitters to wander freely about the studio. From the smoldering intensity on the face of Mexican painter Jose Clemete Orozco to the beguilingly sensual elegance achieved in nude depictions of Charis Wilson - Weston's greatest sitter and most enduring love - the photographer again and again transformed the realistic into the immanently mystical.