Edward Weston : the flame of recognition : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

The Beauty Of Edward Weston's Photographs Is The Expression--the Efflorescence--of A Profound Intuition: During The Decisive Years Of His Career, As He Approached The Age Of Forty, It Came To Him That The Solution To A Photographic Problem Was Implicit In The Nature Of The Subject. The Photograph Should Be An Analogue (not A Copy) Of The Thing Itself. This Idea Evolved Out Of His Work, As He Freed His Eyes Of Conventional Expectations, And Learned To See The Force Of Intention That Resides Within Natural Form. This Book Is The Third And Final Edition Of Nancy Newhall's Classic Summation Of Weston's Work And His Thought, As He Revealed It In His Diaries And Private Correspondence. Or The Fourth Edition, If One Traces The Ancestry Of This Volume Back To The Slender Monograph That Accompanied The Weston Exhibition That Mrs. Newhall Directed In 1946 At The Museum Of Modern Art. The Sympathy, Critical Acuity, And Scholarly Rigor That Characterized That Early Work Were Sustained By Nancy Newhall Throughout Her Life, Which Was Dedicated To Understanding And Sharing The Art Of Photography--john Szarkoski, Director, Department Of Photography, The Museum Of Modern Art.--cover Edited By Nancy Newhall. Issued On The Occasion Of A Major Exhibition Of The Photographs Of Edward Weston Held In 1975 At The Museum Of Modern Art, New York--t.p. Verso. An Aperture Monograph. Bibliography: P. [102]-[103] "The beauty of Edward Weston's photographs is the expression--the efflorescence--of a profound intuition: during the decisive years of his career, as he approached the age of forty, it came to him that the solution to a photographic problem was implicit in the nature of the subject. The photograph should be an analogue (not a copy) of the thing itself. This idea evolved out of his work, as he freed his eyes of conventional expectations, and learned to see the force of intention that resides within natural form. This book is the third and final edition of Nancy Newhall's classic summation of Weston's work and his thought, as he revealed it in his diaries and private correspondence. Or the fourth edition, if one traces the ancestry of this volume back to the slender monograph that accompanied the Weston exhibition that Mrs. Newhall directed in 1946 at The Museum of Modern Art. The sympathy, critical acuity, and scholarly rigor that characterized that early work were sustained by Nancy Newhall throughout her life, which was dedicated to understanding and sharing the art of photography.--John Szarkoski, Director, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art."--Page 4 de la couverture This new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because of the onset of Parkinson's disease ten years prior to his death in 1958. Treated chronologically and emphasizing Weston's creative preoccupations in each period, the book includes work that he created in 1938 and 1939 with funds from the first two Guggenheim Foundation grants ever awarded to a photographer. . To illustrate the book vintage prints have been selected from the copious Weston Archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the highly important Lane Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 10,000 photographs have been examined in order to select those reproduced in the book. Edward Weston, the flame of recognition: his photographs, accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters Edited by Nancy Newhall Edited by Nancy Newhall. Bound in publisher's original rust cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.