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| Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude (Monographs) | 
| Author: Amy Conger
Creator: Edward Weston
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 364143
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 11.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0714845736
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780714845739
ASIN: 0714845736
Publication Date: January 17, 2006
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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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Beautiful B&W November 6, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Amy Conger has produced a beautiful collection of Weston's photos, selected form about 25 years of his work. As the title suggests, most of these are wonderful figure studies. The remaining few are still-lifes or landscapes. Many of these, like the shells p.48, pepper p.69, or radish p.74 present the same curves and compositions as his nudes.
In part, these help to bring out a geometric contrast that seemed to fascinate Weston: the merger of flowing curves of figure with harsher, angular geometries. One (p.70) creates a square frame of crossed arms containing the roundness of the model's breasts. Others show the elegant gawkiness of knees and elbows (p.75, 91), or the columnar architecture (p.77) of the body's supporting members. Two photos (pp. 102, 103) present a generously rounded black model, coincidentally named Weston - just enough to leave me hoping for more, in contrast to Weston's more common work with slender, light-skinned women.
Although I enjoy this book immensely, one thing about it baffles me. For some reason, Conger's publisher chose to use the same format and cover photo (Nude, Bertha Wardell) as a much earlier book by Charis Wilson - something that could easily fool potential readers into mistaking one for the other. It's not that Conger was unaware of Wilson's book, in fact Conger notes it in her bibliography. I guess I'll never know.
Or need to. It's a great collection anyway. Conger's brief biographical note at the beginning (echoed in Spanish at the end) was helpful, but the pictures truly speak for themselves.
//wiredweird
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