a plate from Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio (Carmel, California, 1951), mounted, initialed and dated by the photographer in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp and plate number '5' in pencil in an unidentified hand on the reverse, printed by BRETT WESTON from the negative by EDWARD WESTON under the latter's supervision, matted, 1936, printed in 1951, one in an edition of 100 (Conger 968; Nudes, p. 83; Photography and Modernism, pl. 75; Through Another Lens, pl. 29; Century of the Body, pl. 41)

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. There is light silvering, appropriate for a print of this age, at the periphery. The mount is slightly age-darkened at the periphery, and there is also minor foxing on the front. Along the mount edges there are three pin-sized holes, as well as small areas where framing nails from a previous matting have left impressions.
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