Edward Weston is best known
for his photographs of vegetables and shells, his portraits, his abstract
close-ups of nudes, rocks, and trees, and his late heroic landscapes. His
sensuously precise Two Shells was
made not long after Weston embraced the straightforward, sharply focused
modernist aesthetic. The subtleties of tone and sculptural design Weston
achieved in his work became the standards by which much later photographic
practice has been judged.