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Eroded Rock and Pebbles, Point Lobos
Creator
Edward WestonAmerican Photographer · 1886–1958
All works by this person →> 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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- 1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> As early as 1929, after he moved to Carmel, Edward Weston began to transport his camera outdoors, approaching subjects such as rocks, tree trunks, wild mushrooms, and kelp with immense enthusiasm. He wrote, “I get greater joy from finding things in Nature, already composed, than I do from my finest personal arrangements.” Careful to avoid picturesque clichés of the Point Lobos coastline, he experimented with microcosmic bits of the natural environment in a similar fashion as he had with shells and other still-life subjects in the studio. The results sometimes bordered on abstraction. Weston photographed the rocks in this image horizontally, but he mounted and signed the Getty Museum's print in a vertical orientation, emphasizing the piece as a formal arrangement more than a depiction of real space. > > Adapted from Brett Abbott. *Edward Weston*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 66. ©2005, J. Paul Getty Trust.
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