Edward Weston's life work exhibit opens in Miami

(photo by Weston titled "Chambered Nautilus-Halved")Edward Weston: Life Work will open this September in Miami.

Coming this September at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami is a exhibit of one of the great photographers Edward Weston. The exhibit titled Edward Weston: Life Work will open September 17th and end November 13th 2006. The 100 print show will cover all five decades of Weston’s work.

Edward Weston: Life Work features several of his first photographs from a family album, incorporating rare early self-portraits and landscapes; also included is Weston’s last photograph, made in 1948, near his home in Carmel, California, where he died ten years later. Between these first and last images are some of the most highly prized and acclaimed photographs of the 20th century. They encompass Weston’s 40-year creative trajectory, which coincided with a major shift in American photography from soft-focus, sentimental Pictorialism to hard-edged high Modernism. Previously unpublished masterpieces are interspersed with well-known signature images. In addition to landscapes and studies of desert detritus made with the support of a Guggenheim grant, portraits of prominent artistic and literary figures are also well represented. Edward Weston: Life Work is organized and circulated by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles; all works courtesy of the Michael and Judith Hochberg Collection.

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