Nude, Edward Weston; Cole Weston

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Edward Weston; Cole Weston, Nude
Edward Weston; Cole Weston, Nude
Edward Weston , Cole Weston
Nude
1927
Edward Weston
1886–1958
Cole Weston
Nude, 1927
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17.3 x 23.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 13/16 x 9 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1972.0243
Not on display
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Archive Label: Weston has cropped out the model’s head from this photograph to emphasize her body, which he then has rendered with the clinical detachment of modernism. Through these means Weston denies the subjectivity of his female model: he seems to have no desire to depict his model as a specific individual, full of desires and wishes of her own. Rather, he has rendered the female body here as a means of proving his own artistic virtuosity.