Dunes, Oceano, from The Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio: 1902-1952
Edward Weston, Dunes, Oceano, from The Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio: 1902-1952, 1936 (negative); 1951 (print), gelatin silver print, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © unknown, research required, 52.149.12
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- Title
Dunes, Oceano, from The Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio: 1902-1952
- Related Titles
original language: Dunes, Oceano
portfolio (original language): The Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio: 1902-1952
- Artist
- Date
1936 (negative); 1951 (print)
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Edition
edition of 100
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 7 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
52.149.12
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
Weston, renowned for his detailed and luxurious photographs of sand dunes, vegetables, and nudes, assembled twelve diverse images for this anniversary portfolio. The locations where he made the images—California, Louisiana, New York, Tennessee, and Mexico—are equally varied.
Weston skillfully printed from large-format negatives for much of his life, but prints in The Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio were made by Weston's son, Brett, who first exhibited his own photographs alongside his father's at age fourteen. By the late 1940s, as the elder Weston's Parkinson's disease advanced, Brett became his primary printer. Additional assistants to the project included Weston's youngest son, Cole; Brett's wife, Dody; and photographers Morley and Frances Baer, who were close friends.
Although the earliest image in the portfolio dates to 1924, Weston received his first camera as a gift from his father in 1902, prompting the fiftieth anniversary title.
- Exhibitions
2001 Form Spirit and Metamorphosis: The Camera Work of Four American Master Photographers Portland Art Museum; Musée d'art moderne et contemporain
2012 70 Years/70 Photographs Portland Art Museum
2015 FOTOFOLIO: Adams, Strand, Weston, Weston, White Portland Art Museum