Edward Weston is renowned as one of the grand masters of 20th c. photography. His legacy includes several thousand carefully composed, superbly printed photographs which have influenced photographers around the world for 50 years. Photographing natural landscapes and forms such as peppers, shells, and rocks, using large-format cameras and available light, Weston produced sensuously precise images raised to the level of poetry. The subtleties of tone and the sculptural formal design of his works have become the standards by which much later photographic practice has been judged. Ansel Adams has written: "Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the world. His work illuminatess inner journey toward perfection of the spirit." Weston wrote, "the camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh." Edward Weston: White Dunes, Oceano, California 1936
Edward Weston: White Dunes, Oceano, California 1936