Mardi 14 octobre 2025, 18h40, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 4e. Edward Weston, Poivron, 1930, tirage gélatino-argentique d’époque. Ce poivron « numéro 30 » a été, pour Weston lui-même, une œuvre phare. Voici un extrait de ce qu’il en dit, page 32 de la monographie Edward Weston Photographer, The Flame of Recognition, Aperture, New York, 1965 :
August 3rd. Sonya keeps tempting me with new peppers! Two more have been added to my collection. While experimenting with one of these, which was so small I used my 21 cm Zeiss to fill the 8 x 10 size, I tried putting it in a tin funnel for background. It was a bright idea, a perfect relief for the pepper and adding reflected light to important contours. I still had the pepper which caused me a week’s work. I had decided I could go no further with it, yet something kept me from taking it to the kitchen, the end of all good peppers. I placed it in the funnel, focused with the Zeiss, and, knowing just the viewpoint, recognized a perfect light, made an exposure of six minutes, with but a few moments preliminary work—the real preliminary was done in hours passed. I have a great negative—by far the best.
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