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Editor: Brenda Bonneville   
Thursday, 20 January 2011

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(Image: Belle Grove Plantation House, Louisiana. Photograph by Edward Weston.)

At the Portland Museum of Art Through March 13, 2011.

(Portland, ME) In early 1941, Edward Weston was approached by the Limited Editions Club of New York and invited to make photographs to illustrate its deluxe edition of Walt Whitman’s epic poem Leaves of Grass. Although he balked at the suggestion, the opportunity the project offered to travel cross-country and visit parts of the U.S. that were new to him convinced Weston to undertake it. This exhibition of 53 photographs by Weston follows the route of his cross-country trip. The Whitman photographs, mostly made with a large 8x10 format camera, are exceptionally wide-ranging with particular emphasis on the man-altered landscape rather than images of untouched nature.

The exhibition will feature images from the West, the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and New England, including two images from Maine. For more information or to see further images from the exhibit, please visit the Portland Museum of Art website.



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