3 Beyond Formalism: Spirals in Photography from Steichen to Westonâ43

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Early twentieth-century photographers experimented with new means to apprehend the forms of natural world without relegating their art to the mere âmechanicalâ reproduction of reality. Still-life photography attracted some major personalities such as Edward Steichen (1879â1983) who confessed his fascination for the golden ratio, and for Cookâs The Curves of Life (1914). Paul Strand (1890â1976) expressed the same fascination for the beauty of essential ânaturalâ geometry. Edward Weston (1886â1958) tried to combine formalism with a new kind of âobjectivismâ andâto some extentââmysticism.â All of them were fascinated by the riddle of spirals and shells.

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Art and Science in Word and Image

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