Lodima Press - The portfolios of Brett Weston

	THE PORTFOLIOS OF BRETT WESTON: volume twelve Twenty photographs
Books By Photographer Robert Adams Hans Bol Marilyn Bridges Paul Caponigro Keith Carter Paula Chamlee Carl Chiarenza Linda Connor Peter Elliston Larry Fink 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	In 1978 Brett Weston was 67 years old, living comfortably in Carmel Valley, and secure in his reputation. He had put away his view cameras for good; all of the pictures in 20 Photographs were made with his medium format Rollei SL66. The subjects are the same ones he had been attracted to all his life—the landscape at infinity, selected fragments of the natural landscape—rocks, ice, water, reflections, trees, agave, and mud cracks—as well as rusting metal and calligraphy. He even includes people in one picture, although they are subordinated to the shadows on the wall behind them, and there is one nude. He works with both three-dimensional and two-dimensional subjects, sometimes creating surprising interplay between deep space and the surface of the print, sometimes simply recording an interesting shape. The pictures vary in tones from very high contrast to soft grays, from deep space to flat, and from complex compositions to simple objects centered in the frame. —From the Afterword by Roger Aikin This portfolio is dedicated to Don and Estelle Ross. Introduction by Rosario Mazzeo. 12 1/2" x 12 1/2", 20 reproductions, 56 pages More about the nineteen-volume series