Edward Weston (1886-1958) is one of the seminal figures

of American twentieth-century photography. His series of

nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist

photography in their formal elegance, simplicity and

abstraction. The selection and pairing of the photographs

in this book demonstrate Weston's fascination with the

nude and its relationship with the other natural and abstract

forms that he photographed. A concise and authoritative

introduction to Weston's work, this book features some

of Weston's best-known pictures - including the beautiful,

celebrated nude studies of Tina Modotti and Charis Wilson

and his remarkable still-lifes - as well as many lesser-known,

but no less engaging, works.