On the road with Edward Weston: “Woodlawn Plantation House, Louisiana” and “White Sands, New Mexico,’’ both from the Lane Collection.
(The Lane Collection, Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts)
Edward Weston’s sonatas for the solo camera
On the road with Edward Weston: “Woodlawn Plantation House, Louisiana” and “White Sands, New Mexico,’’ both from the Lane Collection.
(The Lane Collection, Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts)
If you were to pick someone whose poetry had an affinity with the photography of Edward Weston would it be Walt Whitman? With Weston, it doesn’t matter whether the subject is a toilet or a pepper. His most characteristic images are sonatas for solo camera: lustrous, flawless, and tightly controlled.
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