When the Mexican painter Diego Rivera first saw Edward Weston’s iconic photographs of a nautilus shell in the late 1920s, he was physically overwhelmed — “My forehead is sweating,” he ...

Weston wanted nothing more - or less - than to capture such effects with a kind of monumental clarity that makes the seashells seem like embodiments of ideal, Platonic forms. They're a fragment of ...

Led by a rare photograph by Edward Weston, Nautilus Shell, 1927—a previously unknown print of an important early modernist image—the sale also features a rare fashion portfolio by Richard ...

estimated at $2/3 million Edward Weston, known for his shells, nudes and landscapes, was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. Until his death in 2003, Weston's son Cole ...

Edward Weston holds an upper berth in the pantheon ... breathed life into inanimate objects and places, turning nautilus shells, peppers and rippled dunes, with their natural curves and shadows ...

It was only in 1989 that a photograph—a Weston nautilus shell, in fact—broke the six ... current fashion are such masters of Modernism as Edward Steichen, László Moholy-Nagy and Weston.