Designed in collaboration with the Weston family this publication features over 80 works by
the four photographers leaving the leading role to the founder Edward Weston with 40 of his
pictures. These include almost all of his best known masterpieces: from his textural portraits
to his nudes celebrating form from his sand dunes to his plain objects transformed into
sculptures all the way to his famous close-ups of vegetables and shells that have marked the
history of photography of the last century taking it from the late 19th- to early 20th-century
pictorialist vision to an innovative modernist and surrealist figuration that made Edward
Weston one of the absolute masters of world photography. Alongside his works the book includes
a selection of about 20 images by his son Brett certainly the most determined in seeking a
possible interpretation of his father's lesson which he clearly found in landscape a subject
he studied and captured through geometries evoking abstract art. Cole Weston represented by
two further collections on the other hand distanced himself from his father through the use of
colour. Cara Weston - Edward's granddaughter who is still active today - is a refined black and
white photographer offering her personal contemporary take on classical themes.
