Main entry:

Stebbins, Theodore E., author.

Title & Author:

Edward Weston : photography and modernism / by Theodore E. Stebins, Jr. and Karen Quinn and Leslie Furth.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, [1999]
©1999.

Description:

xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 11-May 3, 1999 ; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 19-Nov. 28, 1999 ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 28-June 18, 2000 ; and the Phillips Collection, Wash. D.C., late Jan.-early April, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217).
Director's foreword / Malcolm Rogers -- Introduction / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. -- "Already changing" : Weston's early work / Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. -- Starting life anew : Mexico, 1923-1926 / Leslie Furth -- "Universal rhythms" : Edward Weston and modernism after 1927 / Karen Quinn.

Summary:

"This third and culminating volume in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' outstanding series on Edward Weston (1886-1958) examines the greatest works of Weston's career, his stylistic development, and especially the ways in which he responded to contemporary modernists. Comparative illustrations of work by Picasso, Brancusi, O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Henrietta Shore, and other artists provide a better understanding of these influences. Following an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, three sections of photographs with accompanying essays demonstrate the entire range of Weston's work: his work as a pictorialist before 1920; experimental portraits, landscapes, and still lifes from the Mexican Period; his landmark still lifes of shells and peppers; small-format portraiture and fragmentary nudes; the classic "high modernist" series of nudes and dunes from the 1930s; and his late abstract landscapes. Included are brilliant prints of Weston's most famous images, including Pepper 30, Excusado, and Palma Cuernavaca, as well as numerous unfamiliar photographs that broaden our understanding of this great photographer."--Jacket.

ISBN:

082122588X
9780821225882
0878464689 (pbk.)
9780878464685 (pbk.)

Subject:

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 Exhibitions.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958
Weston, Edward, (1886-1958) Catalogues d'exposition.
Weston, Edward (Photograph)
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographers.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographes.
photographers.
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie
Ausstellung

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Quotations (texts)

Added entries:

Weston, Edward, 1886-1958, photographer.
Quinn, Karen E., author.
Furth, Leslie, 1957- author.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host intitution.
Cleveland Museum of Art, host intitution.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host intitution.
Phillips Collection, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206914
Call No.: TR140.W534 E3 1999
Status: Available