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The White Iris, 1921

Edward Weston :: The White Iris [Tina Modotti, nude bust portrait leaning toward iris], 1921. Platinum or palladium print. | src Johan Hagemeyer Collection at CCP

Prologue to a Sad Spring 1920

Edward H. Weston (1883 – 1956) ~ Prologue to a Sad Spring [Margrethe Mather], 1920 | src women artists in History
Edward Weston ~ Prologue to a Sad Spring [Margrethe with hat, looking over right shoulder, hand on chest, shadow of a tree on a barn wall] 1920. Gelatin silver print | src CCP
Edward Weston ~ Prologue to a Sad Spring [Margrethe standing in dark cloak to left; shadow of tree on barn wall to right], 1920. Platinum or palladium print | src CCP

Betty Katz by Edward Weston

Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz (‘nude’), Los Angeles, 1920. Palladium print | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward H. Weston (1886 – 1958) ~ Betty Katz [Betty Brandner], 1920 | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

In 1920 Edward Weston began a series of pictures of Betty Katz (later Brandner, 1865-1982), who was introduced to Weston by his colleague Margrethe Mather (1886-1952). Weston and Brandner engaged in a brief affair in October 1920, when he made this and several other images of her in her attic and out on a balcony. With its soft focus, these particular portraits are Pictorialist in style compared to the more experimental images Weston made of Katz (Brandner) that are Modernist in their self-conscious handling of space and form.

Text adapted from Brett Abbott. Edward Weston, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), 20. (quoted from Getty Museum)

Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923

Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print. Arizona Board of Regents, Center for Creative Photography. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print. Arizona Board of Regents, Center for Creative Photography. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum
Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print, printed later by Cole Weston.Signed in pencil by Cole Weston and Edward Weston credit stamp on the reverse of the mount. | src Phillips
Edward Weston :: Nude (Margrethe Mather), 1923. Gelatin silver print, printed later by Cole Weston.Signed in pencil by Cole Weston and Edward Weston credit stamp on the reverse of the mount. | src Phillips Sex Theme Auction 2010