EDWARD WESTON | WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO

EDWARD WESTON
1886-1958
WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO

gelatin silver print, extensively annotated by Dody Weston Thompson in pencil on the reverse, 1941, printed no later than 1956
image: 7¾ by 9⅝ in. (19.7 by 24.4 cm.)

Condition Report:
This gelatin silver print is in overall excellent condition. In raking light, impressions from the annotations on the reverse are visible overall. There is a very faint brown accretion of indeterminate nature, measuring approximately one-inch-by-1/8-inch in area, near the center. The print has minor edge wear and its corners are bumped.

The reverse is annotated in pencil in the hand of Weston's final studio assistant, Dody Weston Thompson:
'16 mm
B&H Films 70D A w/ turrent finder
Bolex w/ new finder - can be adjusted cheaply to frame standards } $600 class
Ciné Special -- $1100
Arriflex 16 -- around $2200
Éclair Camaret - (16-35) for around
$5500
Mitchell - 35 mm [circled] - $15 a day rent
A good tripod w/ some kind of giro
head (not fiction head)
2 giros: (1) $600 - hand machined gears
(2) - new head (mfr?) made in Australia - 1/3, size + wt of (1)
Hydraulic - silent - not
quite as pristine $100 only.
Scissors
Editor - moniola, w/ sound, Hollywood
standard - $1200 - get more
expensive can buy or borrow -
but can rent when needed.'

The following is written in pencil in an unidentified hand: '6540' and '29.0.22.1.'

When examined under ultraviolet light, this print appears to fluoresce somewhat.

Provenance:
Collection of Dody Weston Thompson

Collection of Judith G. Hochberg and Michael P. Mattis