Book Description
One of modern photography's greatest pioneers, Edward Weston-whose work includes indelible images of nudes and peppers, rocks and shells, clouds and landscapes-awakened his viewers to the sensuous qualities of organic forms. In his extensive biography of Weston, which was nominated for a National Book Award, Ben Maddow draws heavily from Weston's uncut journals and letters, and from the reminiscences and written accounts of his closest friends and family, to reveal the man and artist behind the seemingly opaque formalism of the photographs.


About the Author
Ben Maddow (1909-92), a writer and director whose work received numerous awards, is the author of Let Truth Be the Prejudice, Aperture's award-winning biography of W. Eugene Smith.

ANNOTATION

"...one of the best books about a great photographer...the literature of modern photography -- which is to say, the literature of modern art -- has acquried a superb addition." -- The New York Times

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Edward Weston: His Life by Ben Maddow.

Revised edition with a new afterword by the author. 15 black-and-white photographs, 6 1/2 x 9 1/4, 281 pages. paperback; "What Mr. Maddow has written . . . is nothing less than one of the best books about a great photographer. . . ." Hilton Kramer, The New York Times.