EDWARD WESTON

Eggs and Slicer

細節

EDWARD WESTON
Weston, Edward
Eggs and Slicer
Gelatin silver print. 1930. Signed, dated, initialed and numbered 7/50 in pencil on the mount.
7 x 9in. (19 x 24.1cm.) Framed.

來源

With Weston Gallery Inc., New York;
Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1988, lot 519;
to the present owner.

出版

See: Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, fig. 594.

拍品專文

In early 1930 Weston experimented with various domestic objects available to him around the house. In June of that year he took up photographing an egg slicer, placing it in different positions, to explore the play of light and shadow. Weston recalls, "The taut wire strings for slicing give it the appearance of a musical instrument, a miniature harp. I put the hard-boiled egg, stripped for cutting into it, a couple more eggs were commandeered to balance, and two aluminum baking dishes, the halved kind, made to fit together in a round steamer were used in back. Result - excellent..." (Daybooks II, p. 141.)