The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Dune and Plants, White Sands

Dune and Plants, White Sands

c. 1945
(American, 1911–1993)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 19.3 x 24.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of the Christian Keesee Collection 2017.140
© The Brett Weston Archive
Location: not on view

Description

Weston’s photographs are about the act of seeing, of translating his experience of the world into visual terms. His images hover between abstraction and representation. “It seems to me,” Weston wrote, “that this powerful duality, this combination of the abstract, in the emphasis upon form, and the sense of presence, in the rendering of light and substance, is something only photography can do.”
  • Brett Weston: Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 21-May 6, 2018).
  • {{cite web|title=Dune and Plants, White Sands|url=false|author=Brett Weston|year=c. 1945|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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