CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/27/2018

NEW! Edward Weston: The Early Years

Gorgeously printed on thick and creamy matte paper, MFA Publications' new release, Edward Weston: The Early Years, presents 115 early photographs—including rare surviving prints from the unplumbed holdings of the Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—that are as unexpectedly painterly as they are romantic. Ultimately rejected by Weston in favor of his mature Modernist work, these photographs are nevertheless experimental and revelatory. Featured photograph, of Weston's son Chandler, is titled "I Do Believe in Fairies" (1913). "Every child is the very embodiment of unconscious natural grace," Weston wrote in 1912, "and to try to pose children is a farce."