Abstractions No. 2- The portfolios of Brett Weston

	THE PORTFOLIOS OF BRETT WESTON: volume sixteen abstractions No. 2, 1927 - 1980
Books By Photographer Robert Adams Hans Bol Marilyn Bridges Paul Caponigro Keith Carter Paula Chamlee Carl Chiarenza Linda Connor Peter Elliston Larry Fink Emily Grimes Eric Lindbloom Elaine Ling Alejandro Lopez De Haro R. Bill Lowenburg Douglas Mellor Richard Copeland Miller Nicholas Nixon Michael A. Smith George Tice Arthur Tress Brett Weston Edward Weston Portfolio Book Series 1. Nicholas Nixon 2. Carl Chiarenza 3. George Tice 4. Keith Carter 5. Linda Connor 6. Larry Fink 7. Arthur Tress 8. Marilyn Bridges 9. Paul Caponigro 10. Douglas Mellor 11. Hans Bol 12. Robert Adams Read about the series Portfolios of Brett Weston San Francisco, 1939 White Sands, 1949 and 1975 New York, 1951 Fifteen Photographs, 1961 Ten Photographs, 1963 Baja California, 1968 Japan, 1970 Europe, 1973 Oregon, 1975 Portraits Of My Father, 1977 Vintage Collection #1, 1977 Twenty Photographs, 1978 Alaska, 1978 Hawaii: Leaves and Lava, 1980 Abstractions No. 1, 1925-1980 Abstractions No. 2, 1927-1980 Student Print Series, 1954–1977 Special Edition, 1951 Read about the series	The two portfolios titled Abstractions, first issued in 1980, offered Brett Weston a general concept within which to collect and publish forty of the best pictures from his entire career. At age sixty-nine he may have thought of these portfolios as a kind of retrospective, even though he was by no means finished taking pictures and always said that the photograph he most cared about was the next one. He certainly did not care about art theory, but acknowledged a debt to modern painting, and seems to have been comfortable with the term “abstraction.” He must have understood that his photographic style stood in some relationship to Modernism and the 20th century tradition of abstract art. Nevertheless, the word “abstraction” seems to be used pretty loosely here, because there are several pictures in these volumes that might more accurately be called traditional deep-space landscapes. Abstractions No. 2 is dedicated to Ansel and Virginia Adams. The introduction is by his good friend Don Ross. 12 1/2" x 12 1/2", 20 reproductions, 52 pages More about the nineteen-volume series