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Platinum, 35 x 28 cm, 1936
In 1934 Edward Weston met Charis Wilson (1914-2009), the well-educated, twenty-year-old daughter of a prominent Carmel family. She began as a model for the photographer's nude studies, but the two soon became romantically involved. Unlike many of the previous model­lovers in his life, Wilson remained with Weston for nearly twelve years, and they were married from 1939 until 1945. She was only his second wife, despite the numerous lovers he had had during and after his first marriage to Flora Chandler (1879-1965). Weston's pictures of Wilson in 1934 were, like his Hands of Kreutzberg, close-up depictions of body parts. Set against a deep black ground, as the still lifes of peppers and shells often were, Wilson's arms and shins or buttocks and feet are tightly framed, often off center, and removed from the context of her body as a whole.
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