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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 779.21092 EAN: 9780892369034 ISBN: 0892369035 Label: Getty Publications Manufacturer: Getty Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: September 10, 2007 Publisher: Getty Publications Studio: Getty Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1953 the writer and curator Nancy Newhall assembled, with the cooperation of the photographer Edward Weston, a mock-up for an elegant book featuring Weston's photographs of the nude. It was the only book on this subject that Weston himself participated in creating. The sample book intersperses landscapes and still lifes with nude studies and includes an essay written by Newhall on the artist's aesthetic. The proposal was rejected in the 1950s, however, by publishers of fine art photographs, who were reluctant to address the subject. In 1985 the mock-up was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum with some pages and prints missing, yet it was only in 2006 that curator Brett Abbott recognized the key to reconstructing the unpublished book in its entirety. Now, in association with the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Getty has finally been able to realize Newhall and Weston's vision. The present volume has been produced with distinctions of paper and ink to indicate those elements that have been added-including a preface by the curator and thumbnail reproductions of the mock-up as it now exists-and those elements that were part of the original, including Newhall's essay and all thirty-nine photographs, arranged on the pages as Newhall and Weston had placed them. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Must Have for WestoniansAs a four decade aficionado of this great photographer, I must admit that this volume is a Must Have for your photographic library. Excellent text, Very Well printed halftones. Thank you, Brett Abbott and Nancy Newhall . Rating: - The Perfect ImageThere are people, (mostly in New York) who resent photography, confusing it with the blurry, out of focus vacation pictures of the non-technical. Now I think that art is whatever will sell on 68th street and that Edward Weston was an artist of the highest ranks of people who use a medium to create what they see or feel, in short, art of merit. Production of the volume is good, the comments not too oprobrious and we ar left Edwrd Weston an his models. The book is to be cherished and not left ... Read More 
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