Edward weston brief biography of mozart

In 1975 I wrote a review of a retrospective of Edward Weston’s photographs at the Museum of Modern Art for The New York Times. I was allowed an illustration, but the one I chose—the well-known pear-shaped nude, a starkly abstract study of a woman’s bottom—was considered too racy by the Times of that time, and I was obliged to accept a staid substitute: a seated female nude in which the model had so arranged her body that nothing of it showed but bent legs and thighs and arms and the top of an inclined head. A few years later, I had occasion to look at that staid picture again and to see with amusement something I and obviously the Times had not noticed in 1975: if you look very closely at the intersection of the woman’s thighs, a few wisps of pubic hair are visible. I had been led to this discovery by the photograph’s model, Charis Wilson, Weston’s second wife, who wrote a remembrance of Weston in a book of his nudes published in 1977, and recalled of the picture that

he was never happy with the shadow on the right arm, and I was never happy with the crooked hair part and the bobby pins. But when I see the picture unexpectedly, I remember most vividly Edward examining the print with a magnifying gl

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Edward Weston

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Re: List of composer biographers

Postby John F » Tue May 16, 2017 8:31 am

I haven't seen such a list. Here are some well-researched, well-written biographies that refrain from psychoanalytic speculation and such, sticking to the facts and the composers' social and musical milieu.

There is no one-volume biography of Mozart that stands out. Gutman sometimes gets the facts wrong and both he and Solomon put Mozart on the psychoanalyst's couch. Stanley Sadie's biography of the early years (up to 1781) - he died before he could write about the last decade - and Volkmar Braunbehrens's "Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791" are excellent.

For years, Maynard Solomon's biography of Beethoven was the best choice, but its scholarship is now dated and I'd pick Lewis Lockwood's book about the life and music.

I recommend Brian Newbould's "Schubert: The Music and the Man," Malcolm McDonald on Brahms, Henri de la Grange on Mahler (3 enormous volumes), Harlow Robinson on Prokofiev, Laurel Fay on Shostakovich, Norman Del Mar on Richard Strauss (3 volumes), Julian Budden on Puccini, and Mary Jane Phillips-Matz on Verdi.

Of course there are many famous composers missing here. These are books on my shelves that I can personally recommend; others here can certainly add recommendations o