(Boston: A New York Graphic Society Book. Little, Brown and Company, 1984).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED WORK OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Edward Weston's California period dominated his work from 1927-1934. Ansel Adams wrote of Weston's photography that "To see, to react, to create, these are the fundamentals of all art production. But also to share is the measure of the great artist and the great person. In both his magnificent photographs and in the confidences and clarifications of his Daybook, Edward Weston takes us into himself and shares with us his particular mirror of beauty and compassion." Edward Weston wrote: "Through photography I would present the significance of facts, so they are transformed from things seen to things known. Wisdom controlling the means--the camera--makes manifest this knowledge, this revelation, in from communicable to the spectator." Item #34655

First Edition. Brilliantly illustrated with 117 folio plates on coated paper, and a number of figures in the text. Oblong Folio, publisher's original white buckram over gray buckram covered boards, the spine lettered in silver, in the original slipcase, decorated with an additional tipped-on plate to the upper cover of the case. 143, [1] pp. A fine copy of the book, the slipcase with a bit of mellowing and age.