{"id":14706,"date":"2021-08-10T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=14706"},"modified":"2021-09-30T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:44:02","slug":"featured-brett-weston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-brett-weston\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Brett Weston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Brett Weston was described&nbsp; as the &#8220;child genius of American photography.&#8221; <\/span> He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler. Weston&#8217;s earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the Abstract Expressionists. Brett Weston was ranked one of the top ten photographers collected by American museums by the final decade of his life. His photographs are included in the collections of countless museums.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14708 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n\" width=\"97\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40541195_906459726204448_8914872090830569472_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 97px) 100vw, 97px\" \/><\/a>Description: <\/strong><span class=\"first3words\">SIGNED BY BRETT WESTON. <\/span>&nbsp; 1st Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor wear and spotting, otherwise in very good condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 48370<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14707\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n-768x926.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40449667_670383173346663_2238162772829405184_n.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brett Weston: Photographs<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Merle Armitage<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Weston was described&nbsp; as the &#8220;child genius of American photography.&#8221; He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler. 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He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14887,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14706\/revisions\/14887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}