EDWARD WESTON LIFE WORK: Photographs from the collection of Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis

9781888899092

1888899093

Over two years in the making and published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition, Edward Weston: Life Work is a 110-photograph survey of this great American artist. Containing photographs from all phases of Weston's long and varied career, from his first nude in 1909 to his final landscape at Point Lobos, California, in 1948, previously unpublished masterpieces are interspersed with his well-known signature images. Never before have Weston's photographs been reproduced with such fidelity to his originals. For those who have not had the opportunity to see original prints by Edward Weston, but who know his photographs only through reproduction, this book will come as a revelation. In keeping with Weston's adherence to the contact print, the photographs are reproduced actual size, and on two different paper stocks and multiple ink colors to reflect Weston's choice of papers and finish. A series of essays by Sarah M. Lowe illuminates each phase of Weston's oeuvre. A firsh-hand remembrance by Dody Weston Thompson, Weston's last assistant, gives the reader an in-depth look at Edward Weston the man, as well as insightful writing about his photographs. Edward Weston: Life Work is drawn from the private collection of Michael P. Mattis and Judith G. Hochberg, whose joint writing the Preface charmingly details their passion and quest for the work of this modern master.