About the Author

Filippo Maggia is currently researcher at the Photography Department of the Royal College of Art. Since 2010, he has taught photographic documentation at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania. Among his previous titles published by Skira are Araki Gold (2008), New Photography in Britain (2008), Daido Moriyama (2010), and Yasuzo Nojima (2011).

Reviews

-...Gorgeous monograph...celebrates the famed America photographer's oeuvre with a selection of images from his career... through Weston's lens, vegetables, bodies, skyscrapers, and landscapes are stripped of visual context and become wondrous and strange. These witty juxtapositions testify to the transformative power of Weston's vision, and his desire to depict forms of -universal appeal... [that indicate] or symbolize life rhythms.- Publishers Weekly

..".Gorgeous monograph...celebrates the famed America photographer's oeuvre with a selection of images from his career... through Weston's lens, vegetables, bodies, skyscrapers, and landscapes are stripped of visual context and become wondrous and strange. These witty juxtapositions testify to the transformative power of Weston's vision, and his desire to depict forms of "universal appeal... [that indicate] or symbolize life rhythms." Publishers Weekly

."..Gorgeous monograph...celebrates the famed America photographer's oeuvre with a selection of images from his career... through Weston's lens, vegetables, bodies, skyscrapers, and landscapes are stripped of visual context and become wondrous and strange. These witty juxtapositions testify to the transformative power of Weston's vision, and his desire to depict forms of "universal appeal... [that indicate] or symbolize life rhythms." "Publishers Weekly
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