Edward Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1886, and began his career as a door-to-door portrait photographer in 1906. After a spell in Mexico City during the early 1920s--where he ran a studio with Tina Modotti--he moved to California and commenced the work for which he is most famous: close-ups of nature, nudes and landscapes. This volume celebrates Weston's nudes, of which Hilton Kramer wrote: "To Weston's eye... the landscape of the human body was an unending revelation of forms both voluptuous and abstract. ...
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Edward Weston was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1886, and began his career as a door-to-door portrait photographer in 1906. After a spell in Mexico City during the early 1920s--where he ran a studio with Tina Modotti--he moved to California and commenced the work for which he is most famous: close-ups of nature, nudes and landscapes. This volume celebrates Weston's nudes, of which Hilton Kramer wrote: "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."
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. clean and tight, book is very goof plus, jacket has some very minor shelf wear, not price clipped, no markings.
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Very Good. Size: 8x2x9; hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Very good. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Aperture, 1977. In mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Edward Weston. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book 1st. ed. 1977, Hardcover with the dust jacket, 116 page book. Illustrated with full page black and white nude photos by one of the last century fine art photographers. A scarce book on Weston by Aperture publishing. Condition: Very good, light edge ware at bottom edge. See this book cover and other books on photographic art at our book site at: Gibbsbooks. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.