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Weston, Cole (Photographer); Maddow, Ben & Wilson, Charis (Contributors) : Cole Weston: Eighteen Photographs ("cole Weston: 18 Photographs")

Peregrine Smith, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1981

ISBN 0879050845

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Exhibition Catalog. The first and the most beautiful book on the photographic art and achievement of Cole Weston ever produced. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by Cole Weston: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray softcovers with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Cole Weston. Essays by Ben Maddow and Charis Wilson. Printed on glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at The Witkin Gallery New York in March 1981. Presents Cole Weston's "Eighteen Photographs". Some of his finest and most representative color photographs. Edward Weston's fourth and youngest son, Cole Weston spent a considerable part of his life administering his father's Estate while slowly building his own impressive oeuvre. He turned to color (which his father spurned) as far back as the 1940's, and never looked back. "A brilliant photographic printer, Cole was solely empowered by Edward to print his pictures after his death in 1958. A child whose first memory is of floating a toy boat in his father's darkroom sink, Cole has commented that he inherited photography as his family's birthright. From the microcosmic worlds found in tide pools to the grand landscapes of the American West, from ruined abbeys in England to his personal renderings of the nude, he pursued his own pathways in photography. After three decades of printing his father's work, Cole at last set aside this responsibility and turned his energies to his own photography. The photographs in this collection reveal his instinct for structure and form, his great sensitivity to color, and his distinctive vision of the earth's rich beauty" (Ben Maddow). Among the iconic photographs in this catalog are "Farm, New Zealand 1976", "Surf and Headlands, California 1958", "Hunt's Cove, Nova Scotia 1978", "Aspen, Utah 1978", "Yukon River, Alaska 1975", "Nude, Arizona 1979", "Cacti, Southern Utah 1976", "Nude in Window, Arizona 1979", "Summer Grass, Mono Lake 1977", and "Trapper"s Lake, Minnesota 1979". An absolute "must-have" title for Cole Weston collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (on the day of the exhibition), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the photographer: "For Carol, Thanks for your help in making my first book come true. Warmest regards, Cole 3/5/81". The recipient, Carol Kismaric, is one of the most important figures in the history of photography: Book designer, historian/scholar, and curator/author. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, exhibition-day dated, and inscribed copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 18 color plates. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD WESTON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0879050845.

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