CORAL GABLES, FL.-Edward Weston: Life Work will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, from Saturday, September 17 through Sunday, November 13, 2005. The Weston exhibition, a 100-image survey, contains an outstanding grouping of vintage prints from all phases of Weston’s 50 year career.

Edward Weston: Life Work features several of his first photographs from a family album, incorporating rare early self-portraits and landscapes; also included is Weston’s last photograph, made in 1948, near his home in Carmel, California, where he died ten years later. Between these first and last images are some of the most highly prized and acclaimed photographs of the 20th century. They encompass Weston’s 40-year creative trajectory, which coincided with a major shift in American photography from soft-focus, sentimental Pictorialism to hard-edged high Modernism. Previously unpublished masterpieces are interspersed with well-known signature images. In addition to landscapes and studies of desert detritus made with the support of a Guggenheim grant, portraits of prominent artistic and literary figures are also well represented. Edward Weston: Life Work is organized and circulated by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles; all works courtesy of the Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg Collection.