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Following a 15-month refurbishment, Edinburgh's City Art Centre has now reopened with two major exhibitions featuring works by two quite different, world-renowned American photographers, Edward Weston and William Wegman. The exhibitions have already received 4 star reviews.
William Wegman's Family Combinations: City Art Centre is the first Scottish gallery to display a comprehensive show of Wegman's work. William Wegman: Family Combinations is the only UK opportunity to catch this exceptional photographic display. All the photographs, capturing a body of 25 years work and celebrating Weimaraners past and present, are from the artist's personal collection and many have rarely been exhibited in public. Featuring over 60 works the exhibition illustrates the family tree of his canine companions and reveals his true love and respect for these dogs. On display is a rich array of Polaroids, chromogenic, silver gelatin and digital prints as well as a selection of videos starring Wegman's canine muse Fay together with her captivating offspring.
Edward Weston Life Work: Edward Weston (1886- 1958) is renowned as one of the masters of 20th century photography. His legacy of carefully composed and superbly printed photographs has influenced photographers around the world. This major exhibition, the largest ever to be shown in the UK, presents a survey of this great American artist, and contains an outstanding group of over 100 vintage prints from all phases of Weston's career. The exhibition encompasses all the themes for which he is best known. Among the earliest works on show is a striking 1909 study of his wife Flora, which is perhaps Weston's first nude, while a 1907 desert image foretells his later passion for landscape. His stay in Mexico heralded a new, trimmed down approach which led on to his memorable still life photographs of the late 1920s. They in turn fed naturally into a remarkable set of sculptural nudes in 1933-1934. Subsequently, Weston's style loosened as he turned to the open landscape. Life Work includes an important suite of six dune studies made near Oceano, California in 1934 and 1936.The exhibition concludes with Weston's consummate final photograph, nicknamed The Dody Rocks, from 1948.
Both exhibitions run until 24 October 2010.
For more information visit: www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
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City Art Centre reopens with 4 star reviews
Following a 15-month refurbishment, Edinburgh's City Art Centre has now reopened with two major exhibitions featuring works by two quite different, world-renowned American photographers, Edward Weston and William Wegman. The exhibitions have already received 4 star reviews.William Wegman's Family Combinations: City Art Centre is the first Scottish gallery to display a comprehensive show of Wegman's work. William Wegman: Family Combinations is the only UK opportunity to catch this exceptional photographic display. All the photographs, capturing a body of 25 years work and celebrating Weimaraners past and present, are from the artist's personal collection and many have rarely been exhibited in public. Featuring over 60 works the exhibition illustrates the family tree of his canine companions and reveals his true love and respect for these dogs. On display is a rich array of Polaroids, chromogenic, silver gelatin and digital prints as well as a selection of videos starring Wegman's canine muse Fay together with her captivating offspring.
Edward Weston Life Work: Edward Weston (1886- 1958) is renowned as one of the masters of 20th century photography. His legacy of carefully composed and superbly printed photographs has influenced photographers around the world. This major exhibition, the largest ever to be shown in the UK, presents a survey of this great American artist, and contains an outstanding group of over 100 vintage prints from all phases of Weston's career. The exhibition encompasses all the themes for which he is best known. Among the earliest works on show is a striking 1909 study of his wife Flora, which is perhaps Weston's first nude, while a 1907 desert image foretells his later passion for landscape. His stay in Mexico heralded a new, trimmed down approach which led on to his memorable still life photographs of the late 1920s. They in turn fed naturally into a remarkable set of sculptural nudes in 1933-1934. Subsequently, Weston's style loosened as he turned to the open landscape. Life Work includes an important suite of six dune studies made near Oceano, California in 1934 and 1936.The exhibition concludes with Weston's consummate final photograph, nicknamed The Dody Rocks, from 1948.
Both exhibitions run until 24 October 2010.
For more information visit: www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
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