Edward Weston The Early Years

Often Overlooked-until Now-westons Early Photography Is Painterly And Lusciousthis Is A Book About Edward Weston Before He Was Edward Weston-before He Was The Renowned Modernist Photographer We Know So Well. His Early Years In The Field Coincided Exactly With The Height Of The Pictorialist Movement In America, And While He Was Never A Typical Practitioner, He Did Make Photographs That Borrowed Themes From Paintings And Other Media, And Experimented With Soft-focused Imagery That Sometimes Looks More Like Graphite Drawings Or Inky Dark Prints Than Photographs. He Would Later Disavow The Gauzy, Painterly Experiments Of His Early Years, Claiming In His Daybooks That Even As I Made The Soft 'artistic' Work.