Edward Weston (1886-1958)

Pepper, 1929

Details

Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Pepper, 1929
gelatin silver print, printed before March 1930
titled, dated, and annotated '1 Pages D & E - June 1930' with other various annotations in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 8 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (22 x 18.6 cm.)

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, October 6, 2010, lot 127.

Literature

Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 562/1929.

Lot Essay

In Edward Weston: Photographs, Amy Conger notes that Weston's pepper images from 1929 often reflect the photographer's interest in the complex shapes and folds of the vegetable, rather than the elegant and smooth surfaces that he looked for in 1930. Conger also notes that the present image was Weston's most popular pepper from his 1929 studies.

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