The Walt Whitman and Ed Weston connection

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Enjoy!

http://hyperallergic.com/324250/edward-weston-photographs-leaves-of-grass/

 

[DREW WILEY]

Oh my gosh. You ain't kiddin. One of the first actual EW prints I ever saw was that "Willie" image thumbtacked to a library bulletin board - yep,
the real deal. Anyone could have just walked off with it. But why would they? Just another curious snapshot worth next to nothing, in the mentality
of that era. But it sure latched onto my memory.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Oh, should add ... these images are predictably fuzzy looking at them the web. The actual contact prints are immaculately sharp to normal vision,
and full of subtle silvery texture that doesn't come across on the internet either.