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"Over the course of his fifty-year career, American photographer Edward WESTON blazed a path into Photo-Modernism rendering portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and nudes. Examining his earliest sharp- and soft-focus photographs, this photo volume, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist', reveals that the young artist had already formed a perfect sense of composition that was to be the hallmark of his later work.
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Presenting the earliest work by Edward WESTON from a recently discovered family album, 'Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist' compares the American photographer's naive first artistic efforts with his latest masterworks to show the persistence and evolution of his singular vision to find essential form in the vernacular with an ever-increasing intensity." (© Merrell, 2017)