Edward Weston: The Early Years

$50.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Often overlooked―until now―Weston's early photography is painterly and luscious This 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…