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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Image fixe. Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Haas, Karen E.
Titre(s) : Edward Weston [Texte imprimé] : the early years / Karen E. Haas ; with Margaret Wessling
Publication : Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 207 pages : sepia-tone illustrations ; 30 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This is a book about Edward Weston before he was Edward Weston, before he was the
renowned modernist photographer we know so well. His early years in the field coincided
exactly with the height of the Pictorialist movement in America, and while he was
never a typical practitioner, he did make photographs that borrowed themes from paintings
and other media, and experimented with soft-focused imagery that sometimes looks more
like graphite drawings or inky dark prints than photographs. He would later disavow
the gauzy, painterly experiments of his early years, claiming in his Daybooks that
even as I made the soft artistic work I would secretly admire sharp, clean, technically
perfect photographs. Introducing rare surviving prints from the unplumbed holdings
of the Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book offers new insights
into Weston's working methods and his evolution as a photographer. By taking a longer
and more nuanced view of his early years, and by reinserting his first experiments
back into the larger story of his artistic production, it reveals the variety of ways
in which the paths he took as a young man led him to become the mature modernist master.
Beautifully reproduced examples of Weston's most important early work, essays explaining
its place in his oeuvre and the history of photography, and a section dedicated to
the variety of Weston?s early materials and techniques make this book a must-have
resource
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Wessling, Margaret. Collaborateur
Sujet(s) : Weston, Edward (1886-1958)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780878468508 (rel.). - ISBN 0878468501
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45565400k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45565400
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