Camera, 8x10 view
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content: Agfa Ansco
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content: An 8x10" View camera used by photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958). This wooden and metal camera is similar to the type of camera used on tripods since the mid-nineteenth century. Adapting to the changes in photography, photographers first needed to coat glass plates with wet-collodion and fit them in specially made plate holders to the backs of the cameras, later dry plates and film holders were introduced. California photographer Edward Weston is well-known for his work in modern photography of the Pacific coast and in Mexico, including dunescape and ocean views, as well as a nudes series. Weston's sons, Brett and Cole, continued in the profession gaining success in their own right.
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Edward Weston
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: PG.69.138
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content: 69.138
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content: 288850
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content: Camera, 8x10 view
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content: camera, 8x10 view
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)