Lot Essay
In October 1924, Weston made a series of images of Tina reciting. He describes the session at length in his Daybooks.
Tina sat to me yesterday morning. We had long planned that I should do her as I have often seen her, quoting poetry - to attempt the registration of her remarkably mobile face in action. There was nothing forced in this attempt, she was soon in a mood which discounted me and my camera - or did she subconsciously feel my presence and respond to it? Within twenty minutes I had made three dozen Graflex negatives and caught her sensitive face with every subtle change. (Daybooks I, Mexico, p. 95.)
Tina sat to me yesterday morning. We had long planned that I should do her as I have often seen her, quoting poetry - to attempt the registration of her remarkably mobile face in action. There was nothing forced in this attempt, she was soon in a mood which discounted me and my camera - or did she subconsciously feel my presence and respond to it? Within twenty minutes I had made three dozen Graflex negatives and caught her sensitive face with every subtle change. (Daybooks I, Mexico, p. 95.)