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Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. Over the course of his 40-year career he photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and even whimsical parodies.
Writing that references this work:
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How Photography Became Art—and Who Got to Decide
The camera made authorship difficult to see. Courts, critics and museums responded by treating pose, timing, printing and selection as evidence of an artist. Their answer admitted photography into art…
