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Edward Weston's Book of Nudes, Hardcover by Abbott, Brett (EDT); Newhall, Nancy (COM); Weston, Edward (COM), ISBN 0892369035, ISBN-13 9780892369034, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The nudes, some of them juxtaposed with still lifes and landscapes, were originally part of a book the photographer and his biographer sought to have published in 1953, without success. This beautifully realized, oversized volume (") presents the complete project, including Newhall's original essay. The b&w plates are full-page and of the best quality. Photos of the mock-up and short biographies of Weston and Newhall are included. Abbott is a curator of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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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pages and prints missing, yet it was only in 2006 that curator Brett Abbott recognized the key to reconstructing the unpublished book in its entirety.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.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0892369035
ISBN-13
9780892369034
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60068158

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Book Title
Edward Weston's Book of Nudes
Author
Nancy Newhall, Edward Weston
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / Nudes
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Photography
Number of Pages
96 Pages

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1.3in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
1.1in
Item Weight
30 oz

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Lc Classification Number
Tr675.W486 2007
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-006592
Dewey Decimal
779/.21092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by ssm.sts.9z7fptf...Jun 03, 2019
The title and cover picture were very misleading. Very few pictures of the female on the cover.
It was not a book of nudes. It was not a book full of nudes of the girl on the cover.
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by IN4zaRNnRkq@Del...May 14, 2008
Historically interesting AND useful.
This very nice book provides an interesting historical perspective on Weston's work. It also provides some fine examples of lighting and posing. Much more useful than some more recent and "edgier" books that more closely resemble glamour photography than fine art.

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The title and cover picture were very misleading. Very few pictures of the female on the cover.

Historically interesting AND useful.

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