Edward Weston
Subtitle: photography and modernism
By: by Theodore E. Stebins, Jr. and Karen Quinn and Leslie Furth.
Contributors: Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.; Quinn, Karen E.; Furth, Leslie, 1957-; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; Cleveland Museum of Art.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Bulfinch Press; Bulfinch Pr
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 -- Exhibitions.; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
Description: This third and culminating volume in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' outstanding series on Edward Weston (1886-1958) examines the greatest works of Weston's career, his stylistic development, and especially the ways in which he responded to contemporary modernists. Comparative illustrations of work by Picasso, Brancusi, O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Henrietta Shore, and other artists provide a better understanding of these influences.

Following an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, three sections of photographs with accompanying essays demonstrate the entire range of Weston's work: his work as a pictorialist before 1920; experimental portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from the Mexican Period; his landmark still lifes of shells and peppers; small-format portraiture and fragmentary nudes; the classic "high modernist" series of nudes and dunes from the 1930s; and his late abstract landscapes.

Included are brilliant prints of Weston's most famous images, including Pepper 30, Excusado, and Palma Cuernavaca, as well as numerous unfamiliar photographs that broaden our understanding of this great photographer.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217).
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 11-May 3, 1999 ; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 19-Nov. 28, 1999 ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 28-June 18, 2000 ; and the Phillips Collection, Wash. D.C., late Jan.-early April, 2002.