Edward Weston - Die Form des Akts - 2005

After the big success of the first two auctions, 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne) now proudly presents the third and last edition for this year of “Masters of Erotic Photobooks".

Enjoy another highly personal selection of books dedicated to eroticism in all its beautiful facets - drawn from my private library and from various acquisitions over the past years.

WONDERFUL PHOTOBOOK WITH ALL THE FAMOUS NUDE PHOTOS by legendary Edward Weston -
-in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Edward Weston was called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."

"Of all the unnoticed works of art in nature revealed by Weston's camera, it was the human form that most persistently challenged this great photographer throughout his working life. Erotic, sculptural, and poetic, his nude photographs of lovers, friends, and of his son Neil combine the essentials of physical passion with a desire to go beyond the transitory to a discovery of eternal forms.
In his search for the ideal, Weston concentrated on the fundamental physical aspects of his subjects, empowering his prints with an intrinsic grace and elegance. There is a desire to draw near, and a distant, unknowable sense of sculpture; a reflection of universal rhythms, revealing the "vital essence of things."
(from the publisher)

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
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Phaidon, Berlin. 2005. First French edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 290 x 295 mm. 138 pages. Edited by Amy Conger Translation from english into french: Anne-Marie Terel. Conception graphic: Ernesto Aparicio. Adaption: Lucy Newell. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside very clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; pages lightly smell like smoke, no other remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside perfect, very fresh and flawless (protected by the jacket). Dustjacket fresh white and flawless, complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; marginal trace of use. Overall very fine, much better than usual condition.

Excellent nude photobook by Edward Weston with original dustjacket - in great condition.

"Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.
Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.
In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he soon stopped photographing. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images."
(Wikipedia)