Weston, Edward
American (1886-1958)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Mexico, 1924

1924
platinum print
19.3 x 24.3 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Brett Weston
GEH NEG: 10484
74:0061:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 8450-3 (*)
NON-GEH NUMBER: 14A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 490.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in pencil) "EW 1/50" (signed) "Edward Weston Mexico 1924" print verso-(in pencil) "1924" (signed) "Edward Weston Mexico 1924" mount verso-(in pencil) "-from our azoetea" "14A" (applied label with typescript) "Museum of Modern Art LOAN E.L.42.1254 E. Weston"

NOTES: Catalogued 2/93, DZ. (*) Old GEH accession number determined from Museum acquisition records. Variant of "Desde la Azotea" (74:061:66). "As Weston scholar Amy Conger has shown, this photograph, and Mexico City (74:061:66), were both taken about the same time. It is unknown which came first. While the subject matter is similar - a view from Weston and Modotti's home down onto a neighbor's azotea 0 the visual arrangement of form and light conspire to produce two very different photographs. With just a simple adjustment of the camera, Weston was able to create, in this particular work, a more calculated and formal image. He eliminates extraneous presences such as the water tank and street beyond the house, thus concentrating his view. This photograph becomes a play of geometric planes, lines, and the patterns inscribed by light and shadow." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECT: architecture, rooftops