Shells

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Shells

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Edward Weston

American Photographer · 1886–1958

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> To clearly express my feeling for life with photographic beauty, present objectively the texture, rhythm, form in nature, without subterfuge or evasion in technique or spirit, to record the quintessence of the object or element before my lens, rather than an interpretation, a superficial phase, or passing mood--this is my way in photography. It is not an easy way. > > --Edward Weston In the spri

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Date
negative 1927; print about 1953
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
fbcd1ee9-373a-4797-a0b8-10f5c155d139

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Two nautilus shells nestled into an abalone shell.

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