Portrait of a Man, 1949 Mid-Century Black & White Photograph by Edward Weston For Sale

Rare black and white photograph, a portrait of a handsome man by Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958)....

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Portrait of a Man, 1949 Mid-Century Black & White Photograph by Edward Weston

$4,300

Robert Azensky Fine Art

Soquel, CA

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Dimensions: 13ʺW × 2ʺD × 16ʺH

Styles: Realism

Frame Type: Framed

Art Subjects: Figure

Period: 1940s

Country of Origin: United States

Item Type: Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned

Materials: Black & White Photography

Condition: Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections

Color: Black

Tear Sheet

Condition Notes: Some normal age toning to paper. Some normal age toning to paper. less

Description: Rare black and white photograph, a portrait of a handsome man by Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January … more Rare black and white photograph, a portrait of a handsome man by Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958). Signed "EW 1949" lower right. Displayed in a black wood frame. Image, 4.5"H x 3.5"W. Provenance; Russel Levin Photograph Gallery, Monterey.

Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived on Wild Cat Hill in the Caemek Highlands for many years.

Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.

In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images. less

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Robert Azensky Fine Art

Soquel, CA

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