Through May 25
Edward Weston was one of the dominant figures of early 20as century photography. His images, which are icons of the genre, include landscapes, still lifes and nudes. His closeups of fruit and vegetables such as peppers are especially well known and influential.
Many of his classic nudes — some of which resembled his pepper shots in their near abstraction — were of his partner writer Charis Wilson, who was his wife from 1939-1946. A new show at the Cleveland Museum of Art by Kelli Connell, titled Pictures for Charis, considers the relationship between photographer and subject, using Wilson’s writings and Weston’s photos of female nudes and the western landscape. She mingles these with images of and stories about her partner at the time, Betsy Odom, updating the relationship by adding a queer, feminist viewpoint. Together they made photos at the same places where Weston and Wilson had done so. The exhibit mixes photos by Weston with those of Connell.
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