Pepper
Edward Weston
1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 23.9 × 19.1 cm (9 7/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 40.3 × 40.1 cm (15 7/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paperCollected by Hugh Edwards
About
As a child in 1902, Edward Weston saw an exhibition of photographs at the Art Institute, a visit that he later stated "changed my whole life." During a three-year sojourn in Mexico, Weston developed a friendship with the painter Diego Rivera, who taught him to focus on the sculptural form of natural objects. In Pepper #30, a familiar object has been transformed into a potent presence. The curves and folds of the pepper suggest the flesh and sensuous contours of a human torso.
