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Cole Weston: At Home and Abroad

Cole Weston

In the tradition of its classic monographs on the master photographer Edward Weston and his eldest son, Brett, Aperture now publishes the work of Edward's youngest son, Cole. Cole Weston: At Home and Abroad contains sixty color photographs, Letters from Edward Weston to his son, and a biographical sketch by Paul Wolf. A brilliant photographic printer, Cole was solely empowered by Edward to print his pictures after his death, in 1958. A child whose first memory is of floating a toy boat in his father's darkroom sink, Cote has commented that he inherited photography as his family's birthright. Cole was the first in his family to devote himself to capturing the world in color. From the microcosmic worlds found in tide pools to the grand landscapes of the American West, from ruined abbeys in England to his personal renderings of the female body, Cote pursued his own pathways in photography. In 1988, after three decades of printing his father's work, Cote at last set aside this responsibility and turned his energies to his own photography. The photographs in this book, taken over twenty years in the Carmel-Big Sur region and in Europe, reveal Cole's instinct for structure and form, his great sensitivity to color, and his distinctive vision of the earth's rich beauty.

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Edward Cole Kim Weston: Three Generations of American Photography

Cole Weston; Thomas Buchsteiner; Edward Weston; Kim Weston

Three generations of American photography - by a family that, like no otber, has influenced the history of international photography, the photographic scene around the world, and its technical perfection. Edward Weston, the father of Cole and the grand-father of Kim, has become a legend as a photographer. In the early twenties he had already created a sensation with his soft, clay-colored studies whose artistic subject matter reminds one of the "Photo Secession" founded by Alfred Stieglitz in 1902. Edward Weston's purist studies of bodies, of landscapes, of fruit, vegetables, and other commonplace things propagate the pure, unmanipulated photograph with a tendency towards abstraction. Joint experiments with the new developments in color photography helped Cole Weston to realize quickly that color afforded him new lighting possibilities. It gave him the possibility to create his own identity and to step out of his father's black and white shadow. Cole Weston perfected his work to such an extent that today he is known as a pioneer in the field of artistic color photography. Kim Weston has broken with the Weston tradition of objectivity. His studio work is always staged and recalls a style characteristic of the surrealists in the twenties and the thirties. The black and white scenarios have an allegorical character; they comment on the human society and the rat race of modern times so that they almost form an antithesis to the landscape photography of his father.

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Cole Weston: Fifty Years

Cole Weston

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Buffalo Gal

Cole Weston

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Badlands Blood

Cole Weston

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Ryder's Army

Cole Weston

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Tong War

Cole Weston

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Blood Vengeance

Cole Weston

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Range War

Cole Weston

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Longhorn Sisters

Cole Weston

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Flaming Arrows

Cole Weston

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Showdown

Cole Weston

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Cole Weston, Eighteen Photographs

Cole Weston

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