Gelatin silver print
23.8 x 18.7 cm (9-3/8 x 7-3/8 in.)
86.XM.676.1

Edward Weston emerged as a portrait photographer in the Los Angeles suburb of Tropico (now Glendale) between 1912 and 1922. He was influenced by the spare and arid landscape of Southern California and by the local obsession with natural food and physical culture. In an attempt to sort out the contradictory possibilities of his art, he made a trip East in 1922, during which he met Alfred Stieglitz in New York and saw his studies of O'Keeffe (related to-->> 156-57), which impressed him enormously. Soon after returning home, he decided to change the direction of his life and art completely. He fled Los Angeles for Mexico City accompanied by Tina Modotti and there he began to express a new, more internalized universe. He returned to Los Angeles in 1926 and began a series of metaphoric photographs involving the human figure and still-1ife arrangements. Here the female figure is made to resemble a cross between a piece of fruit and a spare desert landscape.
(EDWARD WESTON related to-->>187,188)

official web site -->>http://www.edward-weston.com/