Edward Weston: 1886-1958 - Hardcover

Pitts, Terence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3836544024 ISBN 13: 9783836544023

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2013

Synopsis

Uncompromising passion: The Life and Art of Edward Weston   Few photographers have created such a legacy as Edward Weston (1886-1958). After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft-focus techniques, Weston became the key pioneer of the school of precise and sharp presentation, dubbed "Straight Photography." Through the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, Weston was a major force in pushing forward the art of photography. His photographs are monuments of sensual realism, perfectly composed images of stillness that sear with passion and intensity. Whatever the subject, be it a vegetable, landscape, shell, or naked body, Weston’s lens captures the essence of its life force, the fundamentals of its form.   Text in English, French, and German

About this title

About the Author:

Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged expert on and collector of photographs and books, who divides his time between Amsterdam and Malibu. He is a founder-member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and a member of the supervisory board of the Herb Ritts Foundation, both located in Los Angeles. He is editor of Deutschland im Fotobuch (2011) and co-editor of Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918-1945 (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3836544024
• ISBN 13: 9783836544023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Heiting Manfred