“… last night I took A. into my arms, and found her lips were waiting mine…”[1] Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs and archival materials illustrated in this post are currently owned, or were owned in the past, by Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. All photographs by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography [CCP], University Continue reading 4 September 2024: Edward Weston, His Mysterious…
[Read Part 1 Here] “… and after a supper enlivened with fresh avocados we lay back against our rolled-up sleeping bags, stretched our feet to the fire, and lolled in indolent ease.[1] Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs and archival materials illustrated in this post are currently owned, or were owned in the past, by Continue reading 8 August 2023: Edward Weston Food: Sustenance,…
Part 1 of 2 “I just want to make it the most cabbagy cabbage a man ever looked at and then chopped up into coleslaw.”[1] —Edward Weston, as quoted in The New Yorker, May-June 1946 Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs are by Edward Weston and both photographs and archival materials illustrated in this post Continue reading 13 September 2022: Edward Weston Food: Sustenance, Inspiration and…
Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs and archival materials illustrated in this post are currently owned, or were owned in the past, by Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. All photographs by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. In 1956, photographer, author and documentary filmmaker Louis Clyde Stoumen completed The Naked Eye: Continue reading 19 January 2022: More…
George Clark, The Ripples,” Chicago Sunday Tribune, 27 February 1949; © 1949 News Syndicate Co., Inc.; (Courtesy, Special Collections Room, Glendale Public Library) When we found ourselves in the funny papers, Ansel and I realized we had arrived.” Artistic acclaim and celebrity manifest in many forms. But I ask you, what could be more auspicious Continue reading 8 July 2021: Cartoon Fame for…
Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs illustrated in this post are vintage prints currently owned by Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. All photographs by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. It was the heart of the Depression, jobs were scarce and millions of people were hoboing around America in pursuit of employment. Continue reading 19 March 2021: Edward…
“On the sand and in the water lay enormous redwood stumps, the silvery patina of the polished wood alternating with patches of charcoal black. There were the photographers, of course, down in the midst of it; Edward photographing stumps, Willard photographing stumps, as well as photographing Edward photographing stumps.”[1] Note: Unless stated otherwise, all photographs Continue reading 16…
“The photographer who stays at home has one great advantage over the photographer who travels—his familiarity with his surroundings. He can study his material constantly, know how it looks at different times of day and seasons of year. He knows when the light is best in all of his favorite places, when the weather will Continue reading 17 September 2020: Edward Weston At Home at Wildcat Hill
“When an artist begins to sign his work it is indicative of a certain self-esteem, self-consciousness.”[1] Throughout his career Edward Weston reinvented his signature to align with his artistic evolution and the broader aesthetics of his times. As he progressed from a young Pictorialist “aesthete” in the 19-teens to an emerging Modernist in the 1920s Continue reading 20 April 2020 What’s In a…
“The utterly famous photographer and the Grand Old Man of the American photographic world, Edward Weston…” — Shoichi Abe, Photo Art [Tokyo], November 1955[1] Weston’s association with progressive photographic movements was pivotal to his aesthetic growth in the 1920s, and brought him into the sphere of influential German artists and intellectuals. As a result, he Continue reading 18 February 2020:…