COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0008434
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aahi0008434
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Work Title (display):
Pájaro Blanco
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1926
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-07-08
Work Creator (display):
Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Noted for innovative photographs of California, Mexico, portraits, industry, and abstract organic forms, including human figures, shells, and plants. Weston took his first photographs with a box camera in 1902. In 1906 he moved to California; was an itinerant portraitist. From 1908 to 1911. He traveled to Mexico, New York City, and Ohio, where he made his first industrial photographs. Weston worked for a commercial portrait studio in Los Angeles, in his own studio in Tropico (now Glendale) California, in Mexico City with Tina Modotti, with his son Brett in San Francisco, in Carmel, California, and in Santa Monica, California. Weston was a co-founder of the Group f/64 in 1932. American photographer. (ULAN)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Modernist
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Modernist
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Work Subject:
textures
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textures
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false
Work Subject:
elegance
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elegance
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
form (aesthetics)
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form (aesthetics)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
flight
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flight
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
birds
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birds
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
animals
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animals
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false
Work Worktype:
photographic prints
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photographic prints
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Work Worktype:
gelatin silver prints
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gelatin silver prints
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Work Worktype:
photographic prints
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photographic prints
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Work Category (VRC classification):
photographs
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photographs
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Tucson, Arizona
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-500-28715-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
360
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
6.60
Image Rights (display):
© University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Edward Weston
Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
Collection info and contact:
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