In Focus: Edward Weston – Photographs from the J.Paul Getty Museum
Regular price
€21.99
20th century photographers
A01=. Abbott
American modernist art
art
artistic photography history
Author_. Abbott
black and white photography
Brett Abbott curator
California photography history
Category=AJCD
Classic photographic style
color photography
conceptual photography
contemporary photography
digital photography
documentary photography
Edward Weston biography
Edward Weston photo book
Edward Weston photography
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
experimental photography
fashion photography
film photography
fine art photography
fine art photography book
general
Getty Museum Edward Weston
historic American photographers
In Focus Getty series
individual photographers
landscape photography
Los Angeles photography
Machine Age aesthetics
modernist photography
photo aesthetics
photo book
photo essay
photo technique master
photographic composition
photographic legacy
photographic modernism
photography
photography legends
photography monographs
Santa Monica photographer
West Coast photography
Weston photographic prints
Product details
- ISBN 9780892368099
- Weight: 288g
- Dimensions: 153 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works that span the photographer's career, this book features pictures made in Claremont, Glendale, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and other locations in California and the U.S. Weston wed machine-age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing. He produced works of art using subject matter as wide-ranging as sea shells, green peppers, sand dunes and nudes, and he set a standard for elegant composition and print technique for generations of photographers to come. Commentaries on each of the featured works, as well as an introduction and chronology, are provided by Brett Abbott, curatorial assistant in the Getty Museum's Department of Photographs.
A colloquium discussion on the artist's work includes Abbott's contributions as well as those of six other participants: photographer William Clift; Amy Conger, author of Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography; David Featherstone, a freelance writer and editor; Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the Getty Museum; David Travis, curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Jennifer Watts, curator of photographs at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
