{"product_id":"edwardweston1886-1958","title":"'Edward Weston 1886 - 1958' (2001)","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Few photographers have created such a legacy as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eEdward Weston (1886-1958)\u003c\/span\u003e. After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft-focus techniques, Weston became the key pioneer of the school of precise and sharp presentation, dubbed \"Straight Photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"His photographs are monuments of sensual realism, perfectly composed images of stillness that sear with passion and intensity. Whatever the subject, be it a vegetable, landscape, shell, or naked body, Weston’s lens captures the essence of its life force, the fundamentals of its form.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis philosophy is the foundation of Weston’s legacy, later writing, “The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” (Edward Weston, n.d.). This book provides an overview of Edward Weston’s prolific five-decade career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0.5rem; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e21 x 27.4 cm | 252 pages | hardcover\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAmerican photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958) is known for his landscapes, nudes and natural forms. His imagery has helped revolutionise photography to become an important component of modern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; cursor: text; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; caret-color: #111111; color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edward Weston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33032967520393,"sku":"10004","price":600.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0350\/5704\/1545\/products\/Untitled-3_a3e8bb21-a224-4a66-a884-e129dc801796.jpg?v=1749109140","url":"https:\/\/store.a4arts.org\/en-gb\/products\/edwardweston1886-1958","provider":"A4 Arts Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}