[pure-silver] Re: A Walk Through the Exhibition
- From: "John Black" <jblack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:28:32 -0400
The Huntington
> Library had an exhibit of Edward Weston prints some months
> ago. Very dissapointing. Nearly all the prints, especially
> the older ones, were low contrast, dingy looking things.
I, too, saw this exhibit at the Huntington and was disapointed. The exhibit
hall, Boone Hall I believe, was very poorly lit (perhaps on purpose for
conservation reasons) and the prints were mostly if not exclusively contacts
of 8X10 negs I think. They were well toned, or at least had a good contrast
range, but all exhibited a uniform yellowish cast in the highlights. I did
not see the catalog.
I understand that these prints were form the Huntington Library collection
that EW personally printed himself and donated to them. I think there was a
total of about 500 prints in the collection from Weston but only about 150
were on display at that exhibition.
This exhibit reinforced my observation that EW had a perverse, eccentric
streak that led him to photograph dead things (road kills, birds, a dead
cowboy he happened to come accross etc) and vegitables. I continue to be
mildly disturbed by his peppers.
JB
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