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WESTON, EDWARD. 50 Photographs “Weston wanted pure photography; he was zealous, he was honest, he was for a time even bigoted, in his refusal to retouch or use any kind of trick or mistiness. He really believed in the beauty of things, and that included their accidents and asperities; the beauty of harsh stone, or broken wood, or a blemished face. He would choose, of course, long and carefully, but he would not conceal or soften. Nothing perhaps since the beatitudes is more endlessly quoted and less believed than that famous line about ‘beauty is truth, truth beauty.’ I doubt whether Keats himself believed it, except in some transcendental sense; but Weston believes it.” –Robinson Jeffers FIRST EDITION, one of only 1500 copies initialed by Weston. With essays by Robinson Jeffers, Merle Armitage, and Donald Bear. Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of fifty of Weston's photographs.
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947.
Folio, original cloth. Roth 128. Open Book 150. Rear hinge loose.
Corners bumped, very slight wear to edge of cloth. Without extremely
rare dust jacket. A very handsome copy. $1000.
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