Weston's Westons: Iconic and Rare Edward Weston Prints from the Cole Weston Trust

Weston's Westons: Iconic and Rare Edward Weston Prints from the Cole Weston Trust at Danziger Projects. "...For most of his life, Weston meticulously made his own prints, noting on each negative envelope the various idiosyncrasies of each particular picture. However, as he got older and the effects of Parkinson's began to take a toll, he began to have his sons – first Brett and then Cole - print for him under his strict instruction.
Cole, an accomplished photographer himself, soon became the sole printer, printing for ten years under Edward's guidance and then continuing to make posthumous prints from 1958 until 1988 when he announced his plan to curtail his printing of Edward's negatives to concentrate on his own work. A provision in Edward Weston's will stipulated that no one else could make prints from those negatives –now all housed at The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.
Cole Weston's prints – EW/CWs as they came to be known – were readily available to photography collectors in the 1970s and 1980s. But as the market for photography grew more pricey and rarefied and connoisseurs began to focus on the vintage print, EW/CWs came to be somewhat taken for granted. Today, however, it has become clear that not only are many of the EW/CW prints quite rare, but that there is a special validity to prints made by the great photographer's own son."