Betty Katz in balcony by Weston

**Edward H. Weston** (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (in balcony), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src Getty Museum (detail)

**Edward H. Weston** (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (in balcony), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src Getty Museum

The woman pictured is Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1895-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Katz engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made several other images of her in her attic and this image—out on a balcony. This particular photograph is Pictorialist in its soft focus and compositional arrangement. However, the prominent attention given the repeating cut forms of the balustrade, the post’s round finial, and the varied angles that frame the image point to Weston’s growing interest in the formal concerns in Modernism.

Dancer by Edward Weston

**Edward Weston** (1886-1958) ~ Dancer in front of a silver screen, Glendale Studio, ca. 1921 | src Swann galleries

Undulating Sand by Weston

**Edward Weston** (1886-1958) ~ Undulating Sand [Mather on Beach], 1923. Palladium print | src liveauctioneers

Alinari monograph on Weston

**Edward Weston ~** Margrethe Mather (?) 1920s. Cover of Alinari’s monograph on Weston, published 1999

Cover of Alinari’s monograph on Edward Weston, published 1999

Black cat autochrome by Steichen

**Edward Jean Steichen ~** Portrait of the Misses Sawyer, ca. 1914. Autochrome | src MoMA

The Larsen dancers · C.H. White

**Clarence Hudson White (1871–1925)** ~ Larsen Dancers [7/11], ca. 1923 – 1924. Platinum print. | Princeton University Art Museum

**Clarence Hudson White (1871–1925)** ~ Larsen Dancers [6/11], ca. 1923 – 1924. Platinum print. | Princeton University Art Museum

**Clarence Hudson White (1871–1925)** ~ Larsen Dancers [9/11], ca. 1923 – 1924. Platinum print. | Princeton University Art Museum

**Clarence Hudson White (1871–1925)** ~ Larsen Dancers [10/11], ca. 1923 – 1924. Platinum print. | Princeton University Art Museum

**Clarence Hudson White (1871–1925)** ~ Larsen Dancers [5/11], ca. 1923 – 1924. Platinum print. | Princeton University Art Museum

Toodles by Alvin L. Coburn

**Alvin L. Coburn** (1882–1966) :: ‘Toodles (Elsie Thomas)’, ca. 1908. Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1980s | Ostlicht Auktion 2023

Coburn was given his first camera at the age of eight and was introduced to photography by his cousin Fred Holland Day. As early as 1902 he became a member of the New York Photo-Secession initiated by Alfred Stieglitz, and two years later his first pictures appeared in Stieglitz’s magazine “Camera Work”. A vintage print of this beautiful motif is hold at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), there titled and dated. Coburn also made autochromes of the same model, showing the red colour of her kimono.