Artist Research

 Shapes of Natural Force: Edward Weston Nudes

The Ideal of Female Beauty

We can definitely support this artist’s immense efforts in trying to depict the very essence of female beauty in universal terms, but there is also an interesting debate following the nude series of Edward Weston, the main question being whether by trying to discover the ideal notion of beauty he deliberately strips away the identity and uniqueness of individual women. By focusing on the particular body parts, often cropping or concealing faces of their models Weston seems to sacrifice their individuality for the sake of preservation of his universalizing concept. Depersonalization is also the result of the extensive numbers of the nudes taken where hyperproduction of material leads to oversaturation and finally insignificance. But hey, there is no reason why you shouldn’t enjoy these artworks and we definitely encourage you to do so.

 exploring the notion of female beauty seen through the lens of one of the masters of fine art photography. In the following paragraphs we are presenting the erotic art of Edward Weston through the series of nudes taken during the zenith of the American Modernist movement. Edward Weston is an iconic figure in what is now perceived as classic photography, and widely celebrated for his famous black-and-white photo series of landscapes, close-ups of peppers, seashells and cabbage halves and, of course, his extensive sequence of nudes made in the twenty year long period in the first half of the past century.

ref:  http://www.widewalls.ch/shapes-of-natural-force-edward-weston-nudes/

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Nude Photography by Wacław Wantuch

 Polish fine art photographer Wacław Wantuch explores the human form in these striking and unusual black & white nudes.