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WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)

Igor Stravinsky. Silver print, 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (11.4x8.8 cm.), with Weston's initials and date on mount recto. 1936

  • Notes: This photograph was formerly in the collection of Merle Armitage, an influential writer and champion of photography. The portrait is featured in Stravinsky (New York: Schirmer, Inc., 1936), which he edited. He commissed Weston to make a series of portraits and Carlos Dyer to design end-sheets. According to Armitage, "Stravinsky considered the book a near perfect marraige of content and design."

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