EDWARD WESTON

Willie, New Orleans

Details

EDWARD WESTON
Willie, New Orleans
Gelatin silver print. 1941. Initialed and dated in pencil on the mount; signed, titled and annotated L 41 - WOC - 5 in pencil on the reverse of the mount.
9.5/8 x 7.5/8in. (24.4 x 19.4cm.)

Literature

See: Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, fig. 1603; Mora and Hill, Edward Weston, Forms of Passion, p. 320.

Lot Essay

While on a commissioned project to illustrate Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Weston spent time photographing in New Orleans with Clarence John Laughlin. Laughlin considered this the "best" photograph Weston made in Louisiana. (Conger, n.p.) Weston included this image among the twelve chosen for the Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio.