Enter our Photography Book Give-Away Contest
Eloquent Light Photography Workshops is pleased to sponsor a nifty photography book give away program. We are giving away one copy of "EDWARD WESTON: COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY." The winner will be announced in the August issue of LightMatters.
It's quick, easy and absolutely FREE to enter this random drawing, and all LightMatters subscribers in the US are eligible but you must enter below before August 30, 2010 in order to be eligible in our drawing.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“You find a few subjects that can be expressed in either color or black-and-white. But you find more that can be said only through one of them. Many I photographed would be meaningless in black-and-white; the separation of forms is possible only because of the juxtaposition of colors.”
- Edward Weston
Towards the end of his career as a photographer, Edward Weston was asked to do a scenic portrait of Monterey Bay for the Eastman Kodak Company’s advertising department. To this, he replied, “I have never been interested in color . . . But I have such a love of Point Lobos that I would hate to see it murdered in color by an ‘outsider.”’ With these words, Weston set out to explore the expressive qualities of color photography.
Within weeks of working in color, Weston wrote to Dr. George L. Waters of the Eastman Kodak Company, “Several [color photographs] equal my best in black-and-white or, at least, seem to in my first enthusiasm.” Terence Pitts, in his essay, describes Weston’s last period as a working photographer in the late 1940s and his involvement in color photography as an art form. Written from a historical perspective, Pitts’s essay covers the relationship between Weston and the Eastman Kodak Company in the advent of color film and also reveals Weston’s inexhaustible energy as an experimenting artist.
Edward Weston: Color Photography offers a chance to see a major American black-and-white photographer’s rarely known work in color; to read Weston’s original essay, published in 1953, “Color as Form”; and to gain insight into the artist’s work through a personal observation written by Nancy Newhall. Thirty-two images have been selected from approximately sixty transparencies in the Edward Weston Archive of the Center for Creative Photography by Terence Pitts and Stuart Alexander for Edward Weston: Color Photography.
The winner of our previous book give-away was FERNANDO OBLEDO of TX
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