ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2001
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Fotografija
Autor: Strani

Terence Pitts, Manfred Heiting, Ansel Adams - Edward Weston
Taschen, 2001
192 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro
German, English, French | Taschen Icons | Terence Pitts (Author), Manfred Heiting (Editor), Ansel Adams (Foreword) |

From still lifes of vegetables to shells to the human nude, Weston`s photographs demonstrate exacting precision and tonal depth. A compact overview of his starkly original work, this book is an introduction to the photographer.

In 1902, the year Edward Weston was given his first camera, few people regarded photography as more than a craft. But along with innovators like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, Weston revolutionized the ways photographers chose subject material and used photographic techniques to create what gradually came to be accepted as fine art. This is an elegant book, designed and printed in Germany, with an essay by Terence Pitts, of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. It presents 180 of Weston`s finest images, including many-such as the pines of Point Lobos, the sand dunes of Oceano, and his stark, unadorned nudes-that have become icons. Whereas the photographs of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy were, to Weston`s eyes, hopelessly mannered, his images are elemental, organic, and in harmony with nature`s rhythms. Weston spent most of his working life in Mexico and California, and much of his work, replete with shadows, is illuminated with the harsh light of those places. In 1932, he and Ansel Adams founded the influential photographic collective Group f/64, named after the lens-aperture size that exposed an image at its most detailed and clear. This was Weston`s aesthetic: to show the real world in its unrelieved integrity rather than create an imaginary construct. He was concerned with visual truth, not with character or storytelling. Weston was a true pioneer whose rigorous vision permanently changed the ways we see the world around us. -John Stevenson