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WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958) "A bottle-burst on Winter Zero Swartzel's farm near Middletown, Ohio."
WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)
"A bottle-burst on Winter Zero Swartzel's farm near Middletown, Ohio." Silver print, 5x4 inches (12.7x10.2 cm.), with Weston's title and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1941
"A bottle-burst on Winter Zero Swartzel's farm near Middletown, Ohio." Silver print, 5x4 inches (12.7x10.2 cm.), with Weston's title and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1941
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Notes: See Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, cat. 1645.
Weston's early work was highly pictorialist in nature, but the early 1920s marked a distinct stylistic change toward realism. Weston believed that "The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh." Weston's careful studies of nudes, shells, household items, and vegetables reveal him to be a photographer devoted to detail and distinctly in touch with the world around him. Each are cool and beautiful, lush and elegant. The bottles photographed here are quirky and light-filled, and reveal Weston's eye for composition and his ability to transform, to reveal the essential grace and beauty of objects before his lens. - Condition: All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.
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