Re: "Perls" of wisdom (?) about Weston

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From: Shannon Stoney (shannonstoney@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/17/02-09:53:27 AM Z


Wow, in Chattanooga? Is it still there?

--shannon

> I happened to see the abovementioned traveling show at the Hunter Museum
> In Chattanooga, TN, recently. It is a very comprehensive overview of
> Weston's work from the earliest Pictorial to the very last image he
> produced - all vintage prints, including early platinum and palladium,
> portraits, landscapes, still life - everything. Many I had never seen
> before, not in any of the books. Whoever put it together chose wisely.
> It may be corny to say, but seeing an original "Pepper #30" in the flesh
> was very moving. What Perl sees as "minimalist" makes me think,
> instead, of a knack for going to the exact heart of a scene, arranged or
> found. This does not preclude complexity, but, rather, fosters it.
>
>


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