Edward Weston: pictorialist pioneer.(Focus on America)

USA Today (Magazine) | September 1, 2003 | Copyright

EDWARD WESTON pioneered a vision that revealed the stark essence f beauty in natural form. Setting aside the soft focus lenses and ideologies used by pictorialist photographers in the early part of the 20th century to romanticize or create metaphor in their work, he began isolating ordinary objects such as vegetables, shells, and the human body, rendering them in sharply focused detail. His style was straightforward and his techniques meticulous. Through his genius and the exquisite transformation of what he previsualized in the ground glass of his camera, to file image he ...

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