Edward Weston at the Boston MFA
Until November 2 you can see some different Westons at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They, along with a couple of Bravo, Modotti and Strand images (and a couple of Brett Weston’s too) are part of the exhibit: Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries.
As the exhibit blurb says, it’s a wide range of subject: from nudes to Mexican toys. I wouldn’t RUN down to Boston to see this, or make a special trip. But if you’re going to the Museum, certainly take a look. Chances are you won’t have seen most of them before.
What IS worth going to is the Museum store – especially the bookstore. I dare you to leave without purchasing a book! I picked up “PHOTOGRAPHY”, part of the MFA Highlights series. My copy sits on the table still shrinkwrapped, but as soon as I reach the end of this sentence, I’m going to break it open and disappear for an hour so I need to tell you that in 1924 the MFA received a gift from Alfred Stieglitz of 27 of his photographs and that’s what launched their photography collection, based on donations only until the 1960′s and there is a great little “history of photography” lesson at the beginning of the book full of great images and then their own collection is represented as divided into categories by content: figures, landscapes, city views and still lifes!
Look out couch, here I come!
