In just two lines Edward Weston summarized all his extreme important work.
Both if we are looking at his nudes or his architecture photos, the metaphysics essence of the work is what we can see. Even if we are still stick with the forms, in their phisicity, we can understand a spiritual power behind them, something transcendent. Something that just few great photographers succeeded in. A photograph of a shell becomes the door of another world where light and dark are playing a sensual battle.
This could seem an hard work, but for Edward this become simply his modus operandi so he wasn't really interested in the criticism behind his work: All the things said about his work, more than something annoying, become something to laugh at or a point were to start to renew himself.
This is what happened when he managed to meet Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1922. Just after this brutal meeting Weston becomes to develop his personal touch. During this period he starts thinking that an artist needs to respond to the architecture of his time, trying to show that in a charming way. Here he becomes a precisionist where the functionality of the camera is transformed in a formal aesthetics.
Here everything born. He becomes free and new. Ready to become the Edward Weston everybody knows, or should.
Brett Abbott (2005), In Focus:Edward Weston:Photographs form J. Paul Getty Museum.
Edward Weston (2006), Edward Weston: The Forms of the Nude.
Edward Weston (2005) Edward Weston, Aperture Masters of Photography.
Terrence Pitts (2008), Edward Weston.
Edward Weston. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved May 4, 2011, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edwardwest141211.html
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