Tomales Bay, Outside San Francisco, California
Artist: Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)
Date: 1937
Dimensions:
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by an anonymous donor
Object number: 1971.180
Label Text:“I do not wish to impose my personality upon nature (any of life’s manifestations), but without prejudice or falsification to be identified with nature, to know things in their very essence, so that what I record is not an interpretation—my idea of what nature should be—but a revelation—a piercing of the smoke screen artificially cast over life by irrelevant, humanly limited exigencies, into an absolute, impersonal recognition.” --Edward Weston
Edward Weston was a successful ‘soft-focus’ portrait photographer before his study of modern art, photographs by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, and his acquaintance with Alfred Steiglitz led him, in the 1920s, to redefine his aesthetic in terms of sharply focused shapes, patterns, and textures. In 1937 and 1938 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the American West. This photograph is a vintage print from that period.
Edward Weston was a successful ‘soft-focus’ portrait photographer before his study of modern art, photographs by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, and his acquaintance with Alfred Steiglitz led him, in the 1920s, to redefine his aesthetic in terms of sharply focused shapes, patterns, and textures. In 1937 and 1938 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the American West. This photograph is a vintage print from that period.
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