Brett Weston - Portraits of My Father
Brett Weston - Portraits of My Father
Volume 10 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston
10 Photographs made from 1929 to 1942
This portfolio contains a series of portraits made of his father, Edward Weston, between 1929 and 1942. As Roger Aikin explains in the Afterword, although it is not generally acknowledged, Brett influenced his father as much as Edward influenced him. Brett always graciously acknowledged his debt to his father. That he would compose a portfolio only of portraits of Edward is a generous mark of his love and respect.
Ansel Adams contributed an Introduction to Portraits of My Father.
Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
Foreword by Ansel Adams
10 reproductions, 36 pages
12 1/2" x 12 1/2"
THE PORTFOLIOS OF BRETT WESTON
A NINETEEN-VOLUME SERIES
Between 1939 and 1980 Brett Weston produced eighteen limited edition portfolios of original photographs. He believed passionately in the power of his original prints and chose the portfolio as the way to reach an expanded audience while still maintaining control over image quality. Today, Weston's original portfolios are rare, expensive, and relatively inaccessible in museums, archives, libraries, or private collections. Many of the photographs in these new books have never before been reproduced. Published in a hardbound edition limited to 250 numbered copies. The softbound edition is limited to 1000 copies, and books are available individually or by subscription.
Printing technology now makes it possible, however, to bring the Brett Weston portfolios to a larger audience in reproductions that, in their rich detail, tonal scale and color, surface quality, and aesthetic appeal, are almost indistinguishable from the original prints. Printed in Belgium by Salto in 600-line screen quadtone on heavy coated stock, the photographs have been reproduced actual size whenever possible.
To recreate the feeling of the original portfolios, great care has been taken not only with the reproduction of the photographs, but with every aspect of these books. Where there is text in the portfolios, it is reproduced in facsimile, and the color of each book's cover has been selected to match the covers of the original portfolio cases.
The art historian Roger Aikin, a close friend of Brett's, has provided an introductory essay for each book in the series, writing that sets the photographs in the context of Weston's life and career. Dr. Aikin's critical analysis comparing the photographs of Brett and those of his father, published in 1973, remains the finest analysis of its type we have ever seen.