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Dunes, Oceano

Edward Weston American
1936
Not on view
The shapes of the peppers Weston photographed became women, his women became landscapes, and his landscapes emerged with attributes of all living nature. Whether the forms in this picture resemble waves, backs, buttocks, or breasts is immaterial. They are made of shifting sand, and that is the subject of the picture.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dunes, Oceano
  • Artist: Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California)
  • Date: 1936
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 19.3 x 24.4 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1100.129
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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