WESTON EDWARD (1886 1958)WESTON BRETT (1911 1993) Chandler M

Sale 2103 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 6,240

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

"ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I'VE DONE" WESTON, EDWARD (1886-1958)/WESTON, BRETT (1911-1993)
"Chandler, Mexico." Warm-toned silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), with Brett Weston's signature, title, date, numerical notation, and the "Negative by Edward Weston/Print by Brett Weston" hand stamp on mount verso. 1923; printed 1955

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This is number 1 of 8 intended "project prints" of this image. In the early 1950s, as Parkinson's disease limited Edward's ability to work in the darkroom, he selected choice images from his body of work that his son Brett--a master printer in his own right--printed under his supervision. According to Weston scholar Amy Conger, this particular picture of Weston's young son, Chandler, has a noteworthy history: "On September 13, 1923 Weston mentioned in his "Daybooks" that he had made a photograph of Chandler that he intended to include in an exhibition scheduled that same month at the Aztec Land Gallery. Then, on September 23, he noted that he had 'printed a negative of Chandler--little figure seated on the wall to our 'cow-shed'--against the sky of an approaching thunder storm." Weston noted it was "one of the best things he had done in Mexico."
Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, unpaginated.