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Edward Weston

Cliff with Seagull, Point Lobos, 1946

Description

Maker

  • Edward Weston, 1886-1958, American
  • Printer Cole Weston, 1919-2003

Title

Cliff with Seagull, Point Lobos

Year

1946

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Titled on verso in pencil and the notation: Negative by Edward Weston Print by Cole Weston

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

71.117.5

Projects & Publications

Publications

RISD STEAM/Discovery Through Juxtaposition

Read Online

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

Edward Weston viewed the camera as an objective instrument that functioned without the photographer’s bias or intervention. Through photography, he believed, one could access deeper truths about nature. Six years before this photograph was taken, Weston explained that his philosophy of photographing the landscape was “to become identified with nature, to know things in their very essence, so that what I record is not an interpretation—my idea of what nature should be—but a revelation or a piercing of the smokescreen artificially cast over life by irrelevant, humanly limited exigencies, into an absolute, impersonal recognition.”

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Edward Weston

series (group); photograph, 1900s

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