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Cloud, Mexico
Edward Weston American
Not on view
Edward Weston spent almost four years in Mexico working alongside his companion Tina Modotti beginning in 1923. There he produced some of his most acclaimed portraits, still lifes, nudes, and cloud studies. Printed on textured, warm-toned palladium paper, this view of a stratus cloud, placed diagonally in the frame, is one of the most elemental photographs. Weston commented in his diaries about the physical challenge of photographing clouds: "Next to the recording of a fugitive expression, or revealing the pathology of some human being, is there anything more elusive to capture than cloud forms! ...One can hardly allow the thought, ‘Is this worth doing?’ or, ‘Is this placed well?’—for an instant of delay and what was, is not!"
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