Edward Weston : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Author:

Abbott, Brett, 1978-

ISBN:

9780892368099

Personal Author:

Abbott, Brett, 1978-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

In focus

In focus (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Contents:

Foreword / William M. Griswold -- Introduction / Brett Abbott -- Plates -- Life into art : the photographs of Edward Weston / Brett Abbott, William Clift, Amy Conger, David Featherstone, Weston Naef, David Travis, Jennifer Watts -- Chronology.

Abstract:

"The biography of the photographer Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958) is full of colorful vignettes of the sort that enliven popular accounts of an artist's life. The singular pursuit of aesthetic ideals (and the resulting financial hardships); the marriages, divorces, and affairs; the early onset of a debilitating illness - all punctuate most Weston histories. However, what remains at the core of any examination of the photographer's career is his body of work, which includes signature images that are among the finest in the medium." "In 2003 the Getty Museum, which holds a collection of about 240 Weston prints, hosted a colloquium on the photographer. This volume in the In Focus series records remarks by the author, Brett Abbott, along with those of six other participants: William Clift, Amy Conger, David Featherstone, Weston Naef, David Travis, and Jennifer Watts. Context for their conversation is provided by the author's introduction, plate texts, and chronology. Approximately fifty of Weston's images demonstrate why his work continues to resonate with a contemporary public and serves as a model for a host of photographers active today."--Jacket.

Personal Subject:

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.

Weston, Edward <1886-1958>

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 (OCoLC)fst00031869

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958. (DE-588)119066629

Weston, Edward.

Weston, Edward (Photograph)

Corporate Subject:

J. Paul Getty Museum -- Photograph collections.

J. Paul Getty Museum - Collections de photographies.

J. Paul Getty Museum -- Collections de photographies.

J. Paul Getty Museum. (OCoLC)fst00532097

J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles. Department of Photographs. (DE-588)4825595-6

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- J. Paul Getty Museum -- Department of Photographs.

Subject Term:

Photography, Artistic.

Portrait photography.

Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles.

Photographie artistique.

Photographies -- Collectionneurs et collections -- Californie -- Los Angeles.

Portraits (Photographie)

Photograph collections. (OCoLC)fst01061600

Photography, Artistic. (OCoLC)fst01061964

Portrait photography. (OCoLC)fst01072259

Photographie.

Geographic Term:

California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540

Added Author:

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.

Added Corporate Author:

J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Summary

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.