My Camera On Point Lobos: : 30 Photographs and Excerpts from E.W.'s Daybooks

Published by Virginia Adams/Yosemite National Park/Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950

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14.5" x 12.25" This breathtaking collection was Weston's final monograph. The seemingly plain and straightforward presentation opens up to the simply spectacular views of the Point Lobos coastal landscape, beginning with his first visits in 1925. Ranging from abstract patterns and forms (pl. 13) to the mystical distances of the shoreline (pl. 6), we see motion in repose at the moment of contact between artist and subject. Dody Thompson's Introduction is a naturalist's story of the Point and the beauty of Carmel that was their home base. The excerpts from the "Daybooks" offer an engaging counterpoint to the supreme eloquence of the images. Raised in Yosemite Valley, Virginia Best Adams (1904-2000), married to Ansel Adams, financed this production, as well as much of her husband's work. The book was a commercial failure and a critical success, perhaps fully appreciated now in the midst of our devastating environmental changes. Dody eventually married Brett in 1952 but carried on as Edward's full time assistant as he struggled with Parkinson's disease. Signed by both Westons, Brett and Cole, on the Dedication page. Additionally signed with a brief inscription by Dody Thompson at the end of her Introduction. Photo engravings by Walter J. Mann printed on Kromekote glossy paper. Introductory piece by Dody Thompson. Includes excerpts from the "Daybooks"and a Postscript by Ansel Adams. Extremities rubbed with some light wear to corners, light foxing to front and rear endpapers, fine in very good dust jacket with deep marginal chipping but no loss to front and back panel type or images, rear flap tape-repaired, in custom mylar cover. Spiral bound glossy heavy cardstock boards.

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Title
My Camera On Point Lobos: : 30 Photographs and Excerpts from E.W.'s Daybooks
Author
Weston, Edward
Publisher
Virginia Adams/Yosemite National Park/Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication year
1950
Dust jacket
dj
Signed
Signed
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
First Edition.

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