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<text id=91TT2898>
<title>
Dec. 30, 1991: American Notes:Photography
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bonfire of The Rarities
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<p> Most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy.
Photographer Brett Weston has always considered it a necessity.
Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the
tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to
destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints
from them after his death.
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<p> On his 80th birthday last week, Weston kept his vow.
Surrounded by friends and family, he tossed hundreds of
negatives into the living-room fireplace of his home in Carmel,
Calif. Art historians and photography curators were horrified.
The Center for Creative Photography, a photographic archive in
Tucson, even sent a representative to Weston's home in an
unsuccessful effort to persuade him to change his mind. Weston
insisted that he was merely limiting his legacy to work
fashioned by his own hand.
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<p> "Nobody can print it the way I do," Weston explained. "It
wouldn't be my work."
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