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Edward Weston's Book of Nudes

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As a four decade aficionado of this great photographer, I must admit that this volume is a Must Have for your photographic library. Excellent text, Very Well printed halftones. Thank you, Brett Abbott and Nancy Newhall .

A fascinating photographic retrospective of his artistry back in the 30's. It's on my coffee table where it belongs.

There are people, (mostly in New York) who resent photography, confusing it with the blurry, out of focus vacation pictures of the non-technical.
Now I think that art is whatever will sell on 68th street and that Edward Weston was an artist of the highest ranks of people who use a medium to create what they see or feel, in short, art of merit. Production of the volume is good, the comments not too oprobrious and we ar left Edwrd Weston an his models. The book is to be cherished and not left on a coffee table to impress your lumpen friends.

Great Book, I will recommend it to every photographer or anybody interested in photography/art history. The imnages are astonishing and the essay is very well written.

I've always viewed Weston as one of the top photographers of the early and mid 1900s. As such, I decided to purchase his Book Of Nudes. Almost immediately I was disappointed with the book's contents. The images are substandard, artistically speaking, and reduced in size to such an extent that it takes away from the few that are mediocre. Not only that, but the presentation of the images was ill executed. Not much more to say than that, unfortunately.