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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958) Nude (Charis, Santa Monica). 1936; printed 1970s by Cole Weston. Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅝ inches (24.1x19.4 cm.), the mount 14⅝x13¼ inches (37.1x33.7cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston stamp with Cole Weston's signature in pencil, and the title, negative notation "227N," and negative date also in pencil, on mount verso.
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Charis described how this picture was made: "I sat in the bedroom doorway (to the sunroof) with the room in a shadow behind me. Even then the light was almost overpoweringly bright. When I ducked my head to avoid looking into it, Edward said "just keep it that way." He was never happy with the shadow on my right arm, and I was never happy with the crooked hair part and bobby pins. But when I see the picture unexpectedly, I remember most vividly Edward examining the print with a magnifying glass to decide if the few visible pubic hairs would prevent him from shipping it through the mails."
Reproduced Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP/The University of Arizona), cat. no. 968/1936
