[Water Pipe Abstraction; View through Circular Ends of 3 Stacked Pipes onto Rows of Stacked Pipes in Background]

Brett Weston American

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The second son of photographer Edward Weston, Brett Weston gained proficiency with the camera at a young age, working as a developer and printer in his father’s studio and exhibiting in the acclaimed 1929 "Film und Foto" international exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, at eighteen. Like many photographers, he was attracted to the industrial landscape, with its geometric forms and impressive sense of scale and repetition. Shooting from unusual angles or isolating objects from their larger context, Weston was able to focus on the abstract play of shapes. In this work, he transforms a scene of stacked water pipes into a kaleidoscope-like view of intersecting arcs and circles.

[Water Pipe Abstraction; View through Circular Ends of 3 Stacked Pipes onto Rows of Stacked Pipes in Background], Brett Weston (American, Los Angeles, California 1911–1993 Kona, Hawaii), Gelatin silver print

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