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Edward
Weston : formes de la passion
de Terence Pitts, Edward Weston, Gilles Mora
Table
des matières
- Weston le Magnifique
- 1911-1923 / Avant le Mexique
- 1923-1926 / Weston au Mexique - Un territoire expérimental
- 1927-1937 / L'appétit d'Edward Weston - Les légumes
et les nus féminins
- 1937-1939 / Les années Guggenheim
- 1939-1948 / La dernière période
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Edward
Weston : La Forme du nu
de Amy Conger
Biographie
de l'auteur
Amy Conger est la plus éminente spécialiste du travail
d'Edward Weston, en particulier de sa période mexicaine et de
sa collaboration avec Tina Modotti. Elle a organisé plusieurs
expositions consacrées au photographe, notamment l'exposition
itinérante " Edward Weston in Mexico: 1923-1926 " en
1982.
De 1985 à 1992, Amy Conger a été chercheur invité
au Center for Creative Photography de Tucson, en Arizona, au J. Paul
Getty Museum de Los Angeles et à la Huntington Library de San
Marino, en Californie.
Les écrits d'Amy Conger sur la photographie sont régulièrement
publiés, et elle rédige actuellement un nouvel ouvrage
d'essais consacrés à Edward Weston.
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Edward
Weston : 1886-1958
de Terence Pitts
Quatrième
de couverture
" Weston est, de fait, un des quelques artistes créatifs
d'aujourd'hui. Il a recréé la matière, les formes
et les forces de la nature, il a rendu ces formes éloquentes
sur le plan de l'unité fondamentale du monde. Son oeuvre éclaire
le voyage intérieur de l'homme vers la perfection de l'esprit.
" Ansel Adams
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Edward
Weston: Portraits
de Cole Weston (Préface), Edward Weston (Photographies)
Book
Description
Paperback, 11.5 x 9.75 in./96 pgs / 73 duotones.
About
the author
Although revered for his vibrant still lifes and haunting California
landscapes, Edward Weston spent the major part of his career, from 1917
to 1948, perfecting a standard of photographic portraiture that has
rarely been surpassed. Weston's timeless images of the fascinating people
who crowded the canvas of his free-spirited life- among them, Robinson
Jeffers, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Igor Stravinsky, James
Cagney, Lincoln Steffens, D.H. Lawrence, Carl Sandburg, e.e. cummings,
and Dorothea Lange-comprise a startling 70 percent of the photographer's
oeuvre
Susan
Morgan is a contributing writer at Elle and Mirabella and the author
of the 1992 Aperture monograph Martin Munkacsi.
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Edward
Weston: His Life
de Ben Maddow, Edward Weston (Photographies)
Book
Description
One of modern photography's greatest pioneers, Edward Weston awakened
his viewers to the sensuous qualities of organic forms. In this biography
Ben Maddow draws heavily on Weston's uncut journals and letters and
on the reminiscences and written accounts of his closest friends and
family to reveal the man behind the opaque formalism of the photographs.
Paperback, 9.25 x 6.5 in./288 pgs / 41 b&w.
About
the author
Ben Maddow (1909-92), a writer and director whose work received numerous
awards, is the author of Let Truth Be the Prejudice, Aperture's award-winning
biography of W. Eugene Smith.
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Dune
de Edward Weston, Brett Weston
Book
Description
Dune collects, for the first time, the sand dune photographs of both
Edward and Brett Weston, two giant names in modern photography. Previously,
their remarkable dune photographs--dramatic abstractions of light and
shadow and sensuous shape--were featured as samples in overview publications
on the artists, just a picture here and there.
This lush volume brings together father and son in a personal, unique
fashion, showcasing the photographs each made in the same locations.
Adding depth is an original essay by Brett Weston's longtime friend,
traveling companion and biographer, John Charles Woods. Woods' intimate,
forthcoming narrative describes what it was like to accompany the younger
Weston into the dunes and what his habits and personality were like.
Charis Wilson, Edward Weston's one-time wife, excerpts a passage from
her acclaimed book Through Another Lens, in which she tells of a 1936
trip she and her husband made to the dunes of Oceano, California. Also
included are correspondence between father and son, and excerpts from
Edward Weston's daybooks.
Nothing can be transmitted to another unless an original problem has
been felt, conceived and solved: not a trivial problem of clever decoration
or the personal ego, but the recording of the very quintessence and
interdependence of all life. --Edward Weston, from America and Photography,
1929
Essays
by Kurt Markus, Charis Wilson and John Woods.
Clothbound,
12.75 x 10 in./96 pgs / 0 color 0 BW duotone 60 tritones~ Item D20044
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Edward
Weston: The Flame of Recognition
de Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (Sous la direction de)
Book
Description
"This book offers the reader, collector, and student of photography
an extraordinary opportunity to study a representative body of Weston's
life-work. " --The New York Times Integrating revealing excerpts
from Edward Weston's daybooks and letters with some of his most exquisite
photographs, Nancy Newhall sheds light on Weston's attempts to "understand
the strange flashes of vision that came through his camera."
"This book offers the reader, collector, and student of photography
an extraordinary opportunity to study a representative body of Weston's
life-work. " -The New York Times Integrating revealing excerpts
from Edward Weston's daybooks and letters with some of his most exquisite
photographs, Nancy Newhall sheds light on Weston's attempts to "understand
the strange flashes of vision that came through his camera."
Edited and foreward by Nancy Newhall. Paperback, 8.5 x 9.75 in./104
pgs
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Tina
Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years
de Sarah M. Lowe
Book
Description
Tina Modotti and Edward Weston travelled to Mexico in 1923 at the start
of an extraordinary period of artistic creativity that became known
as the Mexican Renaissance. Although often perceived as being principally
embodied by the politically motivated work of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro
Siqueiros and Jos Clemente Orozco, the Mexican Renaissance was
shaped by the contribution of dozens of artists, both Mexicans and expatriates,
and gave rise to an exceptionally hospitable environment for innovative
art-making.
The work Modotti and Weston made in the 1920s marks the beginning of
a Modernist photographic aesthetic that left an indelible mark on the
history of photography in Mexico. Each contributed to this history individually:
Modotti is known for beautiful still-lifes that gave way to Modernist
images of Mexican workers and poetic revolutionary icons. Weston's Pictorialist-influenced
imagery was abandoned in favour of sharp, clear, 'straight' photographs
and an engagement with form. Also included in this exquisitely produced
book is a selection of images by two Mexican photographers, Manuel çlvarez
Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky, whose work was influenced by these two
foreigners.
About
the author
Sarah M. Lowe is an independent art historian, based in New York.
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The
Daybooks of Edward Weston: Mexico California
de Nancy Newhall (Sous la direction de), Beaumont Newhall (Sous la direction
de)
About
the author
Edward Weston (1886-1958) is one of the twentieth century's most prominent
and pioneering photographers. In 1917 he became a member of the London
Salon and in 1922 he met Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
In
1923 with his marriage failing he went to Mexico and opened a studio.
It is at this time that he began keeping journals which he referred
to as "daybooks." He wrote in his daybooks until 1943, and
in 1961 they were edited by Nancy Newhall and published for the first
time.
He
was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. Sadly,
he was stricken with Parkinson's disease in the early 1940s and he relied
on his sons, Brett and Cole, to continue printing for him. Cole, his
youngest son became his assistant in 1946 and in 1952 the two men put
together their father's 50th Anniversary Folio. After Edward's death
in 1958 Cole fulfilled his father's wish and continued to print his
negatives.
Nancy
Newhall (1908-1974) dedicated thirty years of her life to photography,
as a writer, scholar, critic, editor, and collaborator in publishing
the work of several of the most influential photographers of this century.
Among
her many accomplishments are the highly acclaimed exhibitions of Paul
Strand and Edward Wilson, which she directed at the Museum of Modern
Art. Author of the classic biography of Ansel Adams, The Eloquent Light,
she also edited and collaborated with Paul Strand to produce the book
Time in New England. Her other books include P.H. Emerson: The Fight
for Photography as a Fine Art; Edward Wilson: The Flame of Recognition,
(ed); and This Is the American Earth (with Ansel Adams).
Beaumont
Newhall (1908-1993) was a distinguished historian and curator, and author
of the definitive The History of Photography.
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Edward
Weston
de Brett Abbott, J Paul Getty Museum (Photographies)
Book
Description
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958)
began his long and colorful 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.
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Edward
Weston
de Amy Conger
Book
Description
Edward Weston (1886–1958) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century
photography. An exponent of ‘straight photography’, Weston
was committed to making photographs ‘free from technical tricks
and incoherent emotionalism’ which were able to capture the essence
of the subject. His series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and
close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography in their formal elegance,
simplicity and abstraction. The first photographer to win a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1937, Weston is among the most influential figures in
the history of photography.
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Edward
Weston: Nudes
de Edward Weston (Photographies), Charis Wilson (Avec la contribution
de)
Book
Description
"To Weston's eye...the landscape of the human body was an unending
revelation of forms both voluptuous and abstract. His genius as an artist
lay in his ability to respond to both with equal passion." --Hilton
Kramer, The New York Times Text by Charis Wilson. Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5
in./118 pgs
About
the author
The daughter of Harry Leon Wilson, a popular novelist of the 1920s,
Charis Wilson was born in San Francisco on May 5, 1914, and grew up
in Carmel. There she met Edward Weston in 1934 and offered to pose for
him. For the next ten years, she was Weston's model-- posing for approximately
half of all his recorded nudes-- as well as his lover (they were married
in 1939). In 1936 Wilson urged Weston to apply for a Guggenheim fellowship,
took his original four-line application and turned it into four pages,
and helped him become the first photographer ever to win the award.
Wilson described the Guggenheim travels in California and the West,
published in 1940.
Edward
Weston was born March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. He made
his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak Bull's Eye #2 camera-- a
gift from his father. In 1911, five years after moving to California,
he opened his own portrait studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California,
and began to earn an international reputation for his work. But it was
not until 1922 that he came fully into his own as an artist, with his
photographs of the Armco Steel mill in Ohio. During 1923-26 he worked
in Mexico and in California, where he lived with his sons, Chandler,
Brett, Neil, and Cole. Though he continued to support himself with portrait
work, Weston turned increasingly to subjects of his own choosing, such
as nudes, clouds, and close-ups of rocks, trees, vegetables, and shells.
During 1937-39, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he traveled and photographed
throughout the American West. Three years later, he toured the South
and East, taking photographs for a limited edition of Whitman's Leaves
of Grass, until the attack on Pearl Harbor cut short his journey. In
1948 Weston made his last photograph; he had been stricken with Parkinson's
disease several years earlier. On January 1, 1958, he died at Wildcat
Hill, his home in Carmel, California.
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EDWARD
WESTON LIFE WORK: Photographs from the collection of Judith G. Hochberg
and Michael P. Mattis
de Sarah M. Lowe, Dody Weston Thompson, Judith G. Hochberg (Avec la
contribution de), Michael P. Mattis (Avec la contribution de)
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Edward
Weston: A Legacy
de Jennifer A. Watts, Edward Weston
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