548 influential photographs taken by Edward Weston and printed by his son Cole are to be auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, estimated at $2/3 million Edward Weston, known for his shells, nudes and ...

Edward Weston, Boat with Abalone Shells, 1938. Gelatin silver print, 7.5 x 9.5 inches (19.1 x 24.1 cm); mount size is 13.25 x 15 inches (33.7 x 38.1 cm). Signed in pencil by Cole Weston with Edward ...

When the Mexican painter Diego Rivera first saw Edward Weston’s iconic photographs of a nautilus shell in the late 1920s, he was physically overwhelmed — “My forehead is sweating,” he wrote — and he ...

Edward Weston was born in 1886 in Highland Park, Ill., and took up photography at the age of 16. His signature style was crisply focused images of organic subjects -- including peppers, shells, trees ...

Weston wanted nothing more - or less - than to capture such effects with a kind of monumental clarity that makes the seashells seem like embodiments of ideal, Platonic forms. They're a fragment of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Edward Weston is famous for making vegetables sexy. And he did. Peppers, radishes, mushrooms; Weston’s curvy, voluptuous shots redefined how the world ...